Wives and Daughters: The Differential Role of Day Care Use in the Nursing Home Placement of Cognitively Impaired Family Members | Zendy

S. Cho | Zendy; Steven H. Zarit | Zendy; David A. Chiriboga | Zendy

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Wives and Daughters: The Differential Role of Day Care Use in the Nursing Home Placement of Cognitively Impaired Family Members

Author(s) -

S. Cho,

Steven H. Zarit,

David A. Chiriboga

Publication year - 2009

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/gnp010

Subject(s) - kinship , kinship care , stressor , daughter , institutionalisation , primary caregiver , family caregivers , psychology , gerontology , dementia , medicine , developmental psychology , nursing , clinical psychology , psychiatry , foster care , disease , pathology , evolutionary biology , political science , law , biology

To expand knowledge concerning the significance of kin relationships in caregiving, this study assessed predictors of the timing of institutionalization for persons with dementia. The focus was on whether use of adult day care by wives and daughters holds the same implications for placement.

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