Caregiving Systems

by Zarit, Steven H.; Pearlin, Leonard I.; Schaie, K. Warner

• ISBN13: 9780805810943
• ISBN10: 0805810943
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1993-04-01
• Publisher: Psychology Pr

Summary

Caregiving has emerged as a critical issue in the second half of the life cycle. With the growth of the older population, there have been dramatic increases in the number of people needing care and assistance. The responsibility for care typically falls on families at a time when they have limited resources to meet these needs. At a societal level, the need for care for growing numbers of disabled elders poses a major challenge for how to organize supportive services in an efficient and responsive system. Bringing together multiple perspectives on caregiving, the authors' explore informal and formal family caregiving and the pivotal issue of how these systems interface and interact. An overview of this variation is provided by examining family caregiving from three perspectives: * the effects of culture on helping patterns and family responsibility, * how different disabilities affect patterns of family care, and * longitudinal perspectives on the impact that caregiving has on family members.

Table of Contents

Social Strucure and Aging	p. ii
Preface	p. ix
Informal Systems of Care	p. 1
Introduction to Part 1	p. 3
Caregivers of the Cognitively Impaired and the Disabled in Shanghai, China	p. 5
Intergenerational Transfer of Resources within Policy and Cultural Contexts	p. 31
Temporal Context and the Caregiver Role: Perspectives from Ethnographic Studies of Multigeneration African-American Families	p. 47
The Impact of Caregiving: Comparisons of Different Family Contexts and Experiences	p. 75
Changes in Depression among Men and Women Caring for an Alzheimer's Patient	p. 119
Research into Informal Caregiving: Current Perspectives and Future Directions	p. 155
Formal Systems of Care	p. 169
Social Health Maintenance Organizations: an Innovative Financing and Service Delivery Model	p. 173
Québec Home-Care Services: a Program at the Local Community Level	p. 217
Barriers to the Use of Formal Services among Alzheimer's Caregivers	p. 241
Family Caregiving Policies: Insights from an Intensive Longitudinal Study	p. 273
Family Caregiving: Integrating Informal and Formal Systems for Care	p. 303
References	p. 315
Author Index	p. 317
Subject Index	p. 327
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