The elderly are growing rapidly today as life expectancy increases. As this longevity has increased, so has the need for filial caregivers. While much has been written about caregiving stress, little has been written regarding the ethical dimensions of filial responsibility and daughter and son caregivers' perceptions of responsibility and moral demands. This paper will address the concept of f...

conclusions the current study revealed that a significant percentage of sandwich generation females have chronic diseases. results a statistically significant difference was found between the two groups in terms of the presence of chronic diseases (p = 0.001). there was a significant correlation between chronic diseases and number of children (p = 0.03), person receiving care (p = 0.004), educa...

conclusions this study has provided some preliminary evidence of the reliability and validity of the persian version of rcas when used with family caregivers of older adults with dementia. background caregivers’ self-assessments of the care they provide are the main vehicles that help explore their experiences and are thought to have a major role in care outcomes. the rising number of people wi...

Using data from the National Survey of Midlife Development in the United States and using the stress process model, this study compared caregiving parents and caregiving adult children with regard to health outcomes. The study sample consisted of 74 caregiving parents and 219 caregiving adult children. Predictors included type of family relationship, provision of activities of daily living, dur...

UNLABELLED Family caregiving is central in the heart transplant (HT) process. METHOD Using a constructivist grounded theory approach, study data were collected from 12 health professionals and 15 families in which one member was a HT recipient throughout three phases of the HT process. FINDINGS Our interpretations suggest that family caregiving contributes to "reversing the downward traject...

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...

background:living with patients of chronic diseases such as heart failure (hf) is a difficult situation for the caregivers. this study explored the iranian family caregivers’ burden of caregiving for patients with hf. materials and methods: eighteen family caregivers of the hf patients from two governmental medical training centers in isfahan, iran were recruited using purposive sampling. data ...