Family Care of Alzheimer's Patients: The Role of Gender and Generational Relationship on Caregiver Outcomes

In this study of 262 individuals caring for victims of Alzheimer's disease, the time-invariant factors of caregiver gender and generational relationship were analyzed for their negative impacts on caregiving. Caregiving impacts included strain in family relationships, restrictions in social act...

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Published in:Journal of applied gerontology 1995-06, Vol.14 (2), p.172-192
Main Authors: Barber, Clifton E., Pasley, B. Kay
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Alzheimer's Disease
Biological and medical sciences
Caregivers
Families & family life
Family environment. Family history
Family Relations
Home Health Care
Intergenerational Relations
Medical sciences
Older people
Personal relationships
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychopathology. Psychiatry
Quality of Life
Sex Differences
Social psychiatry. Ethnopsychiatry
Social research
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Summary:In this study of 262 individuals caring for victims of Alzheimer's disease, the time-invariant factors of caregiver gender and generational relationship were analyzed for their negative impacts on caregiving. Caregiving impacts included strain in family relationships, restrictions in social activity, and decline in health. Results indicate that the impacts of caregiving are not distributed uniformly among caregivers but vary according to both caregiver gender and the generational relationship between the caregiver and the care recipient. Caregiver gender influences strain in family relationships and decline in caregiver health; generational relationship affects restrictions in caregiver social activity. To a lesser extent, caregiving involvement is affected by both gender and generational relationship.
ISSN:0733-4648
1552-4523
DOI:10.1177/073346489501400203