Profiles in caregiving: the unexpected career
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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: San Diego Academic Press c1995
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Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references (p. 365-373) and index
Front Cover; Profiles in Caregiving: The Unexpected Career; Copyright Page; Contents; Preface; Chapter 1. Setting the Stage; Chapter 2. Caregiving Careers and Stress Processes; Chapter 3. An Empirical Inquiry into Caregiving; Chapter 4. The Organization of Stressors in the Lives of Caregivers; Chapter 5.The Natural History of Care-Related Stress; Chapter 6. Stress Proliferation; Chapter 7. The Containment of Care-Related Stressors; Chapter 8. The Transition to Institutional Care; Chapter 9. Adaptation Following Institutionalization; Chapter 10. The Timing and Settings of Patient Death
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 factors as
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