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Families of Alzheimer's Victims
Author(s) -
Scott Jean Pearson,
Roberto Karen A.,
Hutton J. Thomas
Publication year - 1986
Publication title -
journal of the american geriatrics society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.992
H-Index - 232
eISSN - 1532-5415
pISSN - 0002-8614
DOI - 10.1111/j.1532-5415.1986.tb04317.x
Subject(s) - medicine , social support , coping (psychology) , family caregivers , emotional support , perspective (graphical) , caregiver burden , next of kin , primary caregiver , clinical psychology , gerontology , dementia , developmental psychology , disease , psychology , social psychology , archaeology , pathology , artificial intelligence , computer science , history
This study examined the instrumental and social‐emotional support provided by families to the primary caregivers of Alzheimer's patients. It was anticipated that the more adequate the support provided by the family, the less sense of burden and the better the coping effectiveness of the caregiver. Ratings of instrumental assistance, social‐emotional support, adequacy of support, and coping effectiveness were made by trained raters from transcribed interviews with 23 primary caregivers. Also, a second family member who was usually next closest of kin to the caregiver was interviewed in order to provide another perspective of the support the family provided.