UID:
almafu_9959244281402883
Umfang:
1 online resource (405 p.)
ISBN:
1-281-03259-X
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9786611032593
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0-08-053983-1
Inhalt:
Given medical advances and greater understanding of healthful living habits, people are living longer lives. Proportionally speaking, a greater percentage of the population is elderly. Despite medical advances, there is still no cure for dementia, and as elderly individuals succumb to Alzheimer's Disease or related dementia, more and more people are having to care their elderly parents and /or siblings. Profiles in Caregiving is practical source of information for anyone who teaches caregiving, acts as a caregiver, or studies caregiving.This book discusses recent research on stress
Anmerkung:
Description based upon print version of record.
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Front Cover; Profiles in Caregiving: The Unexpected Career; Copyright Page; Contents; Preface; Chapter 1. Setting the Stage; Introduction; The Aging of the Population and the Need for Family Care; The Late-Life Dementias; The Epidemiology of Late-Life Dementia; Precursory Commentary; Chapter 2. Caregiving Careers and Stress Processes; Caregiving as a Career; Stages and Transitions in Caregiving Careers; Alternative Career Paths for Caregiving; Caregiving and the Stress Process; The Synergistic Convergence of Caregiving Careers and the Stress Process
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Chapter 3. An Empirical Inquiry into CaregivingOrigins of the Theoretical Framework and Methods; Caregivers and Their Impaired Relatives; Measurement Strategy; Data Analysis Strategies; Summary; Chapter 4. The Organization of Stressors in the Lives of Caregivers; The Onset of Caregiving; The Primary Stressors of Caregiving; The Creation of Secondary Stressors; Extrinsic Stressors; The Social Context of Caregiving; Summary; Discussion; Chapter 5.The Natural History of Care-Related Stress; The Course of Primary Stressors over Time; The Course of Secondary Stressors over Time
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Individual Patterns of Stability and ChangeSummary; Discussion; Chapter 6. Stress Proliferation; Structural and Interpersonal Foundations of Stress Proliferation; Proliferation over the Short-Term; Proliferation over the Long-Term; Summary; Discussion; Chapter 7. The Containment of Care-Related Stressors; Psychosociai Resources: Social Support and Mastery; Resources and Their Naturalistic Interventions; Resources as Stress Mediators and Moderators; The Independent Effects of Psychosocial Resources; The Long-Term Impact of Psychosocial Resources; Summary; Discussion
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Chapter 8. The Transition to Institutional CareThe Average Course of In-Home Care; The Timing of Institutionalization; Catalysts for Institutionalization; The Family Context of Institutionalization; Institutionalization as a Stressor; Summary; Discussion; Chapter 9. Adaptation Following Institutionalization; Continuity and Change in the Caregiver Role; The Impact of Institutionalization; Caregivers' Adaptation to Placement; Long-Term Institutionalized Caregiving; Summary; Discussion; Chapter 10. The Timing and Settings of Patient Death; Patterns of Mortality among Care Recipients
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Health Status and MortalityThe Impact of Institutionalization; Summary; Discussion; Chapter 11. Bereavement; Continuities and Discontinuities in the Stress Process along the Caregiving Career; The Immediate Impact of the Death of the Dementia Patient; Death and Grief; The Long-Term Impact of the Death of the Dementia Patient; Summary; Discussion; Chapter 12. Clinical Interventions and Caregiving Careers; Intervention Strategies across the Caregiving Career; Clinical Intervention and the Stress Process; Basic Premises; The Need for Early Intervention: Role Acquisition
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Interventions for the Long Haul: Role Enactment
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English
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 0-12-059540-0
Sprache:
Englisch
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