Actions for Caregiving : perspectives, experiences and challenges
Caregiving : perspectives, experiences and challenges / [edited by] Stefano Eleuteri
- Published
- Hauppauge : Nova Science Publishers, [2020]
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource
- Additional Creators
- Eleuteri, Stefano
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- Contents
- Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1 -- Burden and Posttraumatic Growth in Adult Caregivers of Cancer Patients -- Abstract -- Introduction -- Burden in Adult Children Caregivers in Oncology -- Posttraumatic Growth and Caregiving in Oncology -- Methods -- Participants and Procedures -- Measures -- Demographic and Clinical Questionnaire -- Burden Assessment Scale (BAS -- Reinhard, Gubman, Horwitz, & Minsky, 1994 -- Portuguese version by Cotrim, 2007) -- Posttraumatic Growth Inventory (PTGI -- Tedeschi & Calhoun, 1996 -- Portuguese version by Teixeira & Pereira, 2013) -- Data Analysis, Results -- Descriptive Statistics -- Group Differences -- Gender -- Disease Duration -- Chemotherapy Duration -- Level of Dependency -- Correlations -- Discussion -- Limitations and Directions for Future Research -- References -- Chapter 2 -- Depression and Its Correlates in Non-Professional Female Caregivers Caring for Dependent Persons -- Abstract -- Introduction -- Contextualizing the Phenomenon of Dependence -- Objectives of the Study -- Methods -- Participants -- Instruments -- Procedure -- Data Analysis -- Results, Characteristics of Informal Caregivers, Care Recipients, Care Situation, and Clinical Variables of Informal Caregivers -- Prevalence of Depression and Depressive Symptom Profile -- Variables Related to Depression -- Discussion -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 3 -- Costs Derived from the Consumption of Health Resources and Loss of Productivity in Non-Professional Caregivers -- Abstract -- Introduction -- Aging Population, Dependency, and Caregivers -- Consumption of Health Resources by Caregivers -- Job Performance in Caregivers, Trimbos/iMTA Questionnaire for Costs Associated with Psychiatric Illness (TiC-P) -- Purpose -- Methods -- Participants -- Instruments -- Caregiver Characteristics Questionnaire -- Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression Scale -- Trimbos/iMTA Questionnaire for Costs Associated with Psychiatric Illness -- Procedure -- Data Analysis -- Use of Health Services and Predictors -- Direct Costs -- Indirect Costs -- Results -- Sociodemographic and Clinical Characteristics -- Use of Health Services and Predictors -- Direct and Indirect Costs -- Health Problems -- Discussion -- Main Findings, and The Broader Context -- Strengths and Limitations -- Implications for Clinical, Political, and Research Practice -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 4 -- Supporting Family Caregivers of Older Adults with HIP Fracture: The Role of Educational Courses -- Abstract -- Introduction -- Review -- Supporting Caregivers by the Empowerment Concept -- Educational Trainings for Caregivers -- Approaching the Family Carer during Educational Training Using Technology -- Our Research -- Introduction -- Methods -- Sample and Procedures -- The Caregiver Burden Inventory (CBI) -- Socio-Demographic Questionnaire
- Summary
- "A caregiver (usually also known as informal caregiver) is an often unpaid and without formal training (in the related disease) member of a person's social network who helps them with activities of daily living. Caregiving is most commonly used to address impairments related to old age, disability, a disease or a mental disorder. Typical duties of a caregiver might include taking care of someone who has a chronic illness or disease; managing medications or talking to doctors and nurses on someone's behalf; helping to bathe or dress someone who is frail or disabled; or taking care of household chores, meals or processes both formal and informal documentation related to health for someone who cannot do these things alone. With an increasingly aging population in all developed societies, the role of caregiver has been increasingly recognized as an important one, both functionally and economically. Caregiving reflects various possible experiences with potentially infinite perspectives. Many organizations that provide support for persons with disabilities have developed various forms of support for carers as well. However, different challenges for this category of people are still strong: it involves changes within the family system, and some caregivers may not possess the necessary resources to deal with caregiving demands. Many caregivers assume the caregiver role with little or no preparation and have to learn to deal with several aspects of care in a very short time. Literature shows that informal caregivers tend to experience more depressive symptoms and poorer physical health outcomes in comparison to non-caregivers. Moreover, informal caregivers have been repeatedly acknowledged as a model of chronic stress, due to the high level of daily stress that caregivers experience. All of these changes may lead to a set of biopsychosocial disorders named as burden, which results from the obligation to provide care, specifically within the context of a chronic or long-term disease. Caregiver burden has been conceptualized using a multidimensional perspective, in terms of physical, emotional, social and financial difficulties/problems experienced by the caregiver. In this state of the art, this book aims to present some challenges caregivers may encounter during their role, suggesting also some possible perspectives useful for clinicians to address the different experiences of informal caregivers, also connected to the different pathologies the patients they care to suffer from and to the different relationships they have with them"--
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- ISBN
- 1536175501
9781536175509 (electronic bk.)
9781536168891 (hardcover) - Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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