| Profiles in Caregiving: The Unexpected Career Contributor(s): Aneshensel, Carol S. (Author), Zarit, Steven H. (With), Whitlach, Carol J. (With) |
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ISBN: 0120595400 ISBN-13: 9780120595402 Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann OUR PRICE: $72.22 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 1995 Annotation: More and more people are being pressed into service as caregivers for their siblings, parents, or spouses with Alzheimer's Disease or other dementia. With this caregiving role comes added stress and a difficult adjustment period for what begins as a part-time role and can become an unexpected career. Profiles in Caregiving: The Unexpected Career is a practical source of information for anyone who teaches caregiving, acts as a caregiver, or studies caregiving. It is the first book that provides a research investigation into the factors associated with effective caregiving to dementia patients. This landmark work traces the experiences of husbands, wives, daughters, and sons in the caregiving role, identifying common stress factors and discussing how stress affects the caregiver's physical and emotional well-being. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Medical | Caregiving - Medical | Nursing - Gerontology - Social Science | Gerontology |
| Dewey: 362.198 |
| LCCN: 95003498 |
| Physical Information: 1.1" H x 6.5" W x 9.4" (1.60 lbs) 385 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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 associated with caregiving, and what factors impact on successful versus non-successful adaptation to the care-giving role. This is an expanding field in gerontology, and is also of interest to personality and social psychologists studying stress and interpersonal relations. Although there are many books on the cause and treatment of dementia, there has been a book that provides a research investigation into the factors associated with effective caregiving to dementia patients. |