| Description |
1 online resource (xviii, 385 pages) : illustrations |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 365-373) and index. |
| Contents |
Front Cover; Profiles in Caregiving: The Unexpected Career; Copyright Page; Contents; Preface; Chapter 1. Setting the Stage; Chapter 2. Caregiving Careers and Stress Processes; Chapter 3. An Empirical Inquiry into Caregiving; Chapter 4. The Organization of Stressors in the Lives of Caregivers; Chapter 5. The Natural History of Care-Related Stress; Chapter 6. Stress Proliferation; Chapter 7. The Containment of Care-Related Stressors; Chapter 8. The Transition to Institutional Care; Chapter 9. Adaptation Following Institutionalization; Chapter 10. The Timing and Settings of Patient Death. |
| Summary |
Given medical advances and greater understanding of healthful living habits, people are living longer lives. Proportionally speaking, a greater percentage of the population is elderly. Despite medical advances, there is still no cure for dementia, and as elderly individuals succumb to Alzheimer's Disease or related dementia, more and more people are having to care their elderly parents and /or siblings. Profiles in Caregiving is practical source of information for anyone who teaches caregiving, acts as a caregiver, or studies caregiving. This book discusses recent research on stress factors as. |
| Access |
Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
| System Details |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
| Processing Action |
digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Alzheimer's disease -- Patients -- Care.
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Alzheimer's disease -- Patients -- Care. |
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Caregivers.
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Caregivers. |
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Senile dementia -- Patients -- Care.
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Senile dementia -- Patients -- Care. |
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Senile dementia. |
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Alzheimer Disease -- therapy. |
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Caregivers. |
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Home Nursing. |
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Dementia -- therapy. |
| Indexed Term |
Alzheimer's disease Care |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Aneshensel, Carol S.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Profiles in caregiving. San Diego : Academic Press, ©1995 0120595400 9780120595402 (DLC) 95003498 (OCoLC)31969142 |
| ISBN |
9780080539836 (electronic book) |
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0080539831 (electronic book) |
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9780120595402 |
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0120595400 |
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0120595400 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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