Cognition and Caregiving

CAREGIviNG AND ETHNICITY

This research examined the relationship between ethnicity and the psychological status and behavior of Jewish and non-Jewish caregivers in relation to the impaired elderly. It was hypothesized that Jewish caregivers would make significantly more use of formal services than non-Jewish (usually Christian) caregivers. Two separate data sets were analyzed. The first study, "Senile Dementia Patients...

Caregiving and elder abuse.

Elder abuse is understudied and underreported. Elder abuse can take five forms: psychological or emotional abuse, physical abuse, sexual abuse, neglect, and financial abuse. Two national studies of the prevalence of elder abuse have recently been conducted. Laumann in a survey of 3005 community residing individuals between ages 57 to 85 interviewed either in person or with a leave-behind questi...

Coffee and Caregiving.

Competitions for Care and Caregiving

Grandmothers, caregiving, and family functioning.

OBJECTIVES We used McCubbin's Resiliency Model of Family Stress, Adjustment and Adaptation ( McCubbin, Thompson, & McCubbin, 2001) to examine how demographic factors, family stress, grandmother resourcefulness, support, and role reward affect perceptions of family functioning for grandmothers raising grandchildren, grandmothers living in multigenerational households, and grandmothers not caregi...