Family and Caregiving Issues

Current Issues regarding Family Caregiving and Gender Equality in Japan: Male Caregivers and the Interplay between Caregiving and Masculinities

This paper addresses issues related to family caregiving, as one of the areas of caregiving in which problems are currently arising in Japan. Family caregiving is presently inseparable from the gender relationship between men as the breadwinners and women as the caregivers. The perspective of gender equality is therefore extremely important when discussing issues related to family caregiving. T...

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...

Family caregiving: benefits and burdens.

Family caregiving in dementia.

There are 5.3 million people with Alzheimer’s disease in the US—a number expected to grow as the baby-boomer generation enters old age, with estimates that 7.7 million people will be affected by 2030. From 65 to 75% of dementia patients are cared for at home by family members. According to the 2010 Alzheimer’s Association Facts and Figures report, 10.9 million Americans provide 12.5 billion hou...

Mental health, coercion and family caregiving: issues from the international literature

This article summarises current knowledge about two aspects of family care for people with mental illness: potentially pressurising or coercive aspects of family life; and family carers' experiences of being involved in coercive service interventions. There is a paucity of studies on these topics, especially outside Europe, North America and Australasia, and further research is recommended.