Does Expressive Writing Reduce Stress and Improve Health for Family Caregivers of Older Adults? | Zendy

Corey S. Mackenzie | Zendy; Ursula J. Wiprzycka | Zendy; Lynn Hasher | Zendy; David Goldstein | Zendy

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Does Expressive Writing Reduce Stress and Improve Health for Family Caregivers of Older Adults?

Author(s) -

Corey S. Mackenzie,

Ursula J. Wiprzycka,

Lynn Hasher,

David Goldstein

Publication year - 2007

Publication title -

the gerontologist

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 1.524

H-Index - 138

eISSN - 1758-5341

pISSN - 0016-9013

DOI - 10.1093/geront/47.3.296

Subject(s) - family caregivers , intervention (counseling) , mental health , psychology , caregiver stress , primary caregiver , stress management , stress (linguistics) , clinical psychology , medicine , gerontology , developmental psychology , psychotherapist , psychiatry , dementia , linguistics , philosophy , disease , pathology

We examined whether written emotional disclosure reduces stress and improves health outcomes for family caregivers of physically frail and cognitively impaired older adults, as it has been shown to do for certain student and clinical populations.

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