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Final Exam - Family Caregiving Exam Questions with answers
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Final Exam - Family Caregiving ExamQuestions with answers
Caregiver - -anyone who provides assistance to someone else who is in
some degree incapacitated and needs help
*family members and friends are primary source for care for impaired older
adults living in community
-Profile of AD caregivers - -- 70% of AD patients are cared for at home
- usually one family member serves as primary source of care
- 50% are 50+ years old
- 59% female (primarily spouses, daughters and daughters-in-law)
-Diversity of care tasks - -- closeness of familial relationship determines
- care activities differ by se (husbands vs. wives, sons vs. daughters)
-Negative consequences of caregiving - -1. infringement on time and
activities
2. relationship with care recipient
3. physical health
4. mental health and psychological outcomes
-Positive consequenes - -*linked to subjective meanings attached to the role
1. sense of mastery
2. personal growth
3. family responsibility
4. friendship and company
-Factors associated with differential outcomes of caregiving - -1. functional
level of care recipient
2. gender and familial relationships
3. ethnicity
4. social support
-Formal support services - -- respite services
- education
- support groups
- counseling
-Respite services - -range of services designed to give caregivers time
off/away
-Education - -designed to enhance skills, improve coping ability
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