FAMILY CAREGIVING AND THE OLDER AMERICANS ACT

Family caregiving to elderly African Americans: caregiver types and structures.

OBJECTIVES This study identified different types of caregivers who provide care to older African Americans, the types of caregiving structures created to provide care, and the factors that help predict caregiving structures. METHODS A community sample of 330 caregivers caring for 202 elderly African Americans was used. Multinomial logistic regression predicted what type of caregiving structur...

Family caregiving 1 Running Head: FAMILY CAREGIVING FOR OLDER PEOPLE Family caregiving for older people from a life-span developmental point of view

how do family caregivers of older people give up caregiving?

background: population aging has social, economic and political consequences. most family caregivers prefer to care for their family member older person with chronic disease at home. despite traditional culture within iranian families, in some cases, hospitalization of the elderly in nursing home is inevitable, and this affects the old person and his/her family. the aim of this study was to exp...

How Do Family Caregivers of Older People Give Up Caregiving?

BACKGROUND Population aging has social, economic and political consequences. Most family caregivers prefer to care for their family member older person with chronic disease at home. Despite traditional culture within Iranian families, in some cases, hospitalization of the elderly in nursing home is inevitable, and this affects the old person and his/her family. The aim of this study was to expl...

Getting ready for the 21st century: the aging of America and the Older Americans Act.

T hirty-four years after the establishment of three of the four major federal programs for older Americans, national policymakers in the Executive and Legislative branches are engaged in crafting and advancing proposals to modernize, redirect, and secure Social Security These proposals are being introduced for public discussion and congressional action in 1999, an auspicious year for older Amer...