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Caregiving Systems: Informal and Formal Helpers » Read Now
by Steven H. Zarit, Leonard I. Pearlin, K. Warner Schaie. 332 pgs.

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...CAREGIVING SYSTEMS Informal and Formal Helpers Social Strucure and Aging A series of volumes edited...House Aging, Health Behaviors, and Health Outcomes Zarit/ Pearlin/...
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Family Caregivers: Disability, Illness, and Ageing » Read Now
by Hilary Schofield, Sidney Bloch, Helen Herrman, Barbara Murphy, Julie Nankervis, Singh. 342 pgs.

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The first book to deal compassionately and objectively with a major social problem.
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Holding Fast: The Struggle to Create Resilient Caregiving Organizations » Read Now
by William A. Kahn. 242 pgs.

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How can caregivers remain both caring and strong enough to withstand the stress of their work? How can caregiving organizations effectively improve their management and practice? Increasing pressure on caregiving organizations to serve more people with fewer resources means that epidemics of...
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How can caregivers remain both caring and strong enough to withstand the stress of their work? How can caregiving organizations effectively improve their management and practice? Increasing pressure on caregiving organizations to serve more people with fewer resources means that epidemics of burnout, high staff turnover, dissatisfaction and internal conflict often appear inevitable. Holding Fast focuses on the particular stress of caregiving work, its influences on the people and organizations who do that work, and what they can do about it. Illustrated by case studies based on extensive research in schools, hospitals, social work agencies, health care centres and religious institutions, Holding Fast identifies the problems faced by caregiving organizations, and outlines appropriate strategies for tackling these to create a resilient, effective organization. The book is divided into clear sections covering: * an introduction to the nature of caregiving organizations * the disturbances that can occur within them *the skills required to effectively lead them. Holding Fast offers a portrait of how organizations become, or are prevented from becoming, systems of caregiving. It will help leaders of caregiving organizations and their staff gain a better understanding of the difficulties encountered by their organizations, leading to improved management and practice.
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The Reluctant Caregivers: Learning to Care for a Loved One with Alzheimer's » Read Now
by Anne Hendershott. 149 pgs.

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Although Hendershott has spent many years teaching and writing about the sociological aspects of aging, she writes that "none of this could have prepared me for the overwhelming challenge of caring for my own mother-in-law in my home." She introduces baby boomers as the unexpected caregivers of the...
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Although Hendershott has spent many years teaching and writing about the sociological aspects of aging, she writes that "none of this could have prepared me for the overwhelming challenge of caring for my own mother-in-law in my home." She introduces baby boomers as the unexpected caregivers of the coming decades. The process of family denial about symptoms, work-family conflict, and the unique problems of children of caregivers are explored in an effort to find solutions to the caregiving challenge.
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When Memory Fails: Helping the Alzheimer's and Dementia Patient (Chap. 7 "Dementia and the Caregiver," Chap. 9 "Helping the Caregivers") » Read Now
by Allen Jack Edwards Ph. D. 277 pgs.

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...Dementia 140 The Illusory Time Line 155 Summary 156 The Burdens of Caregiving 158 Defining Burden 159 Deciding about Institutionalization 163 Coping Strategies...
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Appraisal and Coping: Moderators Mediators of Stress in Alzheimer's Disease Caregivers?, in Social Work Research » Read Now
by Carmen Louis Morano. 13 pgs.

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...mediate or moderate the effects of caregiving stress on caregiver psychological well-being...Appraisal of burden mediated the effects of caregiving stress on somatic...
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Distressing Emotions in Female Caregivers of People with AIDS, Age-Related Dementias, and Advanced-Stage Cancers, in Perspectives in Psychiatric Care » Read Now
by Jacquelyn H. Flaskerud, Patricia A. Carter, Patricia Lee. 10 pgs.

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...caregivers and related aspects of the caregiving situation to these emotions within each...emotions they are experiencing. Informal caregiving to people with chronic...
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Self-Perceived Needs of Primary Caregivers of Home-Hospice Clients, in Journal of Community Health Nursing » Read Now
by Susan D. Decker, Eva Young. 8 pgs.

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...centering of activities around the patient. Confinement within the house and subordination of all other roles to the demands of caregiving leads to role fatigue, probably...
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Family Experiences with Mental Illness » Read Now
by Richard Tessler, Gail Gamache. 187 pgs.

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Tessler and Gamache provide substantial research on the impact of mental illness on the family through interviews conducted with hundreds of family members between 1989 and 1997. According to the authors, how families experience the mental illness of a relative depends on many social factors...
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Tessler and Gamache provide substantial research on the impact of mental illness on the family through interviews conducted with hundreds of family members between 1989 and 1997. According to the authors, how families experience the mental illness of a relative depends on many social factors, including how public mental health services are organized and financed, and whether families feel judged or supported by professionals.
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Caregiver Meaning: A Study of Caregivers of Individuals with Mental Illness, in Health and Social Work » Read Now
by Donna R. Rhoades, Kay F. Mcfarland. 8 pgs.

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...and family" and "making a difference." Caregiving difficulties also were categorized. Social work implications are discussed. Caregiving, like most forms of work, gives...
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The Nature and Sources of Hope: Perspectives of Family Caregivers of People with Serious Mental Illness, in Perspectives in Psychiatric Care » Read Now
by Robert Bland, Yvonne Darlington. 8 pgs.

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...of a job, even a volunteer job to start with. Hope for a full recovery also was expressed by a caregiving adult child. This daughters statements reflect not just hope for...
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Wages for Caring: Compensating Family Care of the Elderly » Read Now
by Nathan L. Linsk, Sharon M. Keigher, Lori Simon-Rusinowitz, Suzanne E. England. 283 pgs.

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This volume examines policies and programs of compensation for family caregivers of the disabled elderly from a broad analytical perspective, weighing current policies of home care services against principles of access, equity, quality, and funding of long-term care. The authors focus on programs...
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This volume examines policies and programs of compensation for family caregivers of the disabled elderly from a broad analytical perspective, weighing current policies of home care services against principles of access, equity, quality, and funding of long-term care. The authors focus on programs and policies that already exist which could be adjusted to include families and to promote support of family caregiving. In assessing the potential of broad implementation of wages for caring, they contend that if implemented appropriately, family compensation may offer benefits not available through any other kind of service system.
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Employment and Caregiving: Exploration of African American Caregivers, in Social Work » Read Now
by Karen Bullock, Sybil L. Crawford, Sharon L. Tennstedt. 13 pgs.

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...Employment and caregiving: exploration of African American...are increasingly a focus in the caregiving literature. Many researchers have...meet the demands of employment...
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Respite for Caregivers: an Evaluation Study, in Journal of Community Health Nursing » Read Now
by Saundra L. Theis, Joan H. Moss, Merry Ann Pearson. 14 pgs.

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...quality of life, mood, and response to caregiving; (b) to learn relations between the...at changing the negative effects of caregiving and therefore increasing the...
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Caring for the Caregivers: Patterns of Organizational Caregiving, in Administrative Science Quarterly » Read Now
by William A. Kahn. 25 pgs.

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...caregivers: patterns of organizational caregiving. by William A. Kahn 1990...Maria H. Levinson, and Braxton McKee Caregiving organizations revolve around...