We examined the wear-and-tear hypothesis using data from 4 annual interviews with 130 (128 White) middle-aged daughters caring for their physically impaired, elderly mothers. We formulated a latent growth curve model hypothesizing that increases in the amount of care given by daughters caused a decrease in caregiving satisfaction, independent of caregiving duration. We found considerable indivi...

Engagement in two interlinked areas of occupation, familial social participation and caring for my father at the end of his life, led to a journey of self-discovery. A qualitative research methodology, autoethnography, is used to develop a narrative that examines engagement in these two occupations before, during, and after my father's illness and death. I discuss meanings and purposes of famil...

Using interview data collected from 47 Mexican-American families, this study explored whether two measures of religiosity—prayer and/or meditation, and participation in religious services—predicted caregiving outcomes in filial caregivers. Dependent variables included the perceived benefits derived from caregiving, and the subjective appraisal of caregiving as burdensome. Treated as covariates ...

Family caregivers are crucial for supporting home death. We reviewed published qualitative research on home-based family caregiving at end of life (1998-2008), synthesizing key findings and identifying gaps where additional research is needed. Multiple databases were searched and abstracts reviewed for a focus on family caregiving and palliative care; full articles were reviewed to extract data...

Two decades of research on the effects of family caregiving have documented that this is a stressful role with deleterious consequences for the person providing care (Aneshensel, Pearlin, Mullan, Zarit, & Whitlatch, 1995; Haley, Levine, Brown, Berry, & Hughes, 1987; Lawton, Moss, Kleban, Glicksman, & Rovine, 1991; Pruchno, Peters, & Burant, 1995). Nevertheless, there is evidence of considerable...

Correspondence: Karen Robinson, Room 3057, HSC K Building, School of Nursing, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY 40292, USA. E-mail: [email protected] B INSON K.M. ADKISSON P . & WEINRICH S . ( 2001 ) journal of Advanced RO , Nursing 36(4), 573-582 Problem behaviour, caregiver reactions, and impact among caregivers of persons with Alzheimer's disease Background. Problem behaviours t...

INTRODUCTION The task of the caregiver, especially a caregiving mother of a son with a chronic and fatal disease, may interfere with their quality of sleep, sexuality, and some hormone levels. AIM The aim of this study was to evaluate the sexual function and the quality of sleep of caregiving mothers of sons with Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD). METHODS We evaluated 20 caregiving mothers ...

BACKGROUND Lack of state supported care services begets the informal caregiving by family members as the mainstay of care provided to the dependent older people in many Low and Middle Income Countries (LMICs), including India. Little is known about the time spent on caregiving, its cost and the burden experienced by these informal caregivers. We aimed to estimate the costs of informal caregivin...

OBJECTIVE This study was designed to assess the impact of caregiving on the lives of the caregivers. METHODS A cross-sectional study was conducted between July and September 2015 at a teaching hospital in Karachi, Pakistan. Participants who were more than 18 years old and were involved in caregiving (former or current) of a family member were invited to participate in the study. The participa...

The: Experiences and Challenges of Caregivers of Frail or Chronically III Elderly: An Integrative Review Hae-Ra Hall, PhD, RN 1) BACKGROill\rD: Social, legal, and economic factors have changed the delivery of care to elderly who are frail and/or chroniically ill. Increasing number of the elderly are now treated in the community, while living with or in close proximity to their family.It is ...