Impacts of Informal Caregiving on Caregiver Employment, Health, and Family As the aging population increases, the demand for informal caregiving is becoming an ever more important concern for researchers and policy-makers alike. To shed light on the implications of informal caregiving, this paper reviews current research on its impact on three areas of caregivers’ lives: employment, health, and...

The changing context of palliative care over the last decade highlights the importance of recent research on home-based family caregiving at the end of life. This article reports on a comprehensive review of quantitative research (1998-2008) in this area, utilizing a systematic approach targeting studies on family caregivers, home settings, and an identified palliative phase of care (n = 129). ...

Family caregiving is an area that has received extensive attention in the professional and public domains. The graying ofAmerica, the looming aging and retirement of the baby-boomers, increased pressures to care for the chronically ill in their homes, and changes in health care service reimbursement systems all contribute to the generalized concerns regarding caregiving. Nursing constitutes the...

AIM Long-term care systems may alleviate caregiver burdens, particularly for those with fewer resources. However, it remains unclear whether socioeconomic disparity in caregiver burdens exists under a public, universal long-term care insurance (LTCI) system. This study examined income-based inequalities in caregiving time and depressive symptoms in Japanese older family caregivers. We further c...

This study explores the current market value of the care provided by unpaid family members and friends to ill and disabled adults. Using large, national data sets we estimate that the national economic value of informal caregiving was $196 billion in 1997. This figure dwarfs national spending for formal home health care ($32 billion) and nursing home care ($83 billion). Estimates for five state...

This study aimed to classify caregiving families according to the Family Caregivers' Appraisal Checklist (FACL; Horiguchi et al., 2012), which was originally developed to evaluate the probability of continuing caregiving. After nationwide targeting in Japan, the selected survey candidates included 1279 families utilizing domiciliary nursing services chosen by stratified two-stage sampling, and ...

The: Experiences and Challenges of Caregivers of Frail or Chronically III Elderly: An Integrative Review Hae-Ra Hall, PhD, RN 1) BACKGROill\rD: Social, legal, and economic factors have changed the delivery of care to elderly who are frail and/or chroniically ill. Increasing number of the elderly are now treated in the community, while living with or in close proximity to their family.It is ...

Two decades of research on the effects of family caregiving have documented that this is a stressful role with deleterious consequences for the person providing care (Aneshensel, Pearlin, Mullan, Zarit, & Whitlatch, 1995; Haley, Levine, Brown, Berry, & Hughes, 1987; Lawton, Moss, Kleban, Glicksman, & Rovine, 1991; Pruchno, Peters, & Burant, 1995). Nevertheless, there is evidence of considerable...