Caregiving Systems

Author : Steven H. Zarit,Leonard I. Pearlin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2019-02-21
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781317728566

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Caregiving Systems by Steven H. Zarit,Leonard I. Pearlin Pdf

Caregiving has emerged as a critical issue in the second half of the life cycle. With the growth of the older population, there have been dramatic increases in the number of people needing care and assistance. The responsibility for care typically falls on families at a time when they have limited resources to meet these needs. At a societal level, the need for care for growing numbers of disabled elders poses a major challenge for how to organize supportive services in an efficient and responsive system. Bringing together multiple perspectives on caregiving, the authors' explore informal and formal family caregiving and the pivotal issue of how these systems interface and interact. An overview of this variation is provided by examining family caregiving from three perspectives: * the effects of culture on helping patterns and family responsibility, * how different disabilities affect patterns of family care, and * longitudinal perspectives on the impact that caregiving has on family members.

Author : National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine,Health and Medicine Division,Board on Health Care Services,Committee on Family Caregiving for Older Adults
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2016-11-08
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780309448093

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Families Caring for an Aging America by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine,Health and Medicine Division,Board on Health Care Services,Committee on Family Caregiving for Older Adults Pdf

Family caregiving affects millions of Americans every day, in all walks of life. At least 17.7 million individuals in the United States are caregivers of an older adult with a health or functional limitation. The nation's family caregivers provide the lion's share of long-term care for our older adult population. They are also central to older adults' access to and receipt of health care and community-based social services. Yet the need to recognize and support caregivers is among the least appreciated challenges facing the aging U.S. population. Families Caring for an Aging America examines the prevalence and nature of family caregiving of older adults and the available evidence on the effectiveness of programs, supports, and other interventions designed to support family caregivers. This report also assesses and recommends policies to address the needs of family caregivers and to minimize the barriers that they encounter in trying to meet the needs of older adults.

Author : Ronda Hughes
Publisher : Department of Health and Human Services
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Medical
ISBN : IOWA:31858055672798

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Patient Safety and Quality by Ronda Hughes Pdf

"Nurses play a vital role in improving the safety and quality of patient car -- not only in the hospital or ambulatory treatment facility, but also of community-based care and the care performed by family members. Nurses need know what proven techniques and interventions they can use to enhance patient outcomes. To address this need, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), with additional funding from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, has prepared this comprehensive, 1,400-page, handbook for nurses on patient safety and quality -- Patient Safety and Quality: An Evidence-Based Handbook for Nurses. (AHRQ Publication No. 08-0043)." - online AHRQ blurb, http://www.ahrq.gov/qual/nurseshdbk/

Author : William A. Kahn
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Burn out (Psychology)
ISBN : 1583919368

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Holding Fast by William A. Kahn Pdf

In Holding Fast the stresses faced by caregiving organizations are identified and appropriate strategies for tackling these to create a resilient, effective organization are discussed.

Author : Dorothy Heard,Brian Lake
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0415140188

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The Challenge of Attachment for Caregiving by Dorothy Heard,Brian Lake Pdf

The predicaments that bring adults into therapy can often be traced to unsatisfactory experiences of caregiving in childhood. If our capacity for caregiving derives mainly from our own experience of receiving care, then a clearer understanding of how this process of interaction works is crucial for the professional caregiver. The Challenge of Attachment for Caregiving proposes a model for the development of caregiving, shows how it can be related to therapeutic practice and complements and extends the theory of attachment. Drawing on many years' experience as clinicians and researchers, the authors explore in depth an aspect of human development which has profound implications for our future survival. Presenting its own challenge to both theory and practice, this book offers students and practitioners a new perspective on attachment.

Author : Steven H. Zarit,Leonard Irving Pearlin,Klaus Warner Schaie
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Caregivers
ISBN : OCLC:1193375444

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Caregiving Systems by Steven H. Zarit,Leonard Irving Pearlin,Klaus Warner Schaie Pdf

Author : Ronda C. Talley,Gregory L. Fricchione,Benjamin G. Druss
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2013-11-18
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781461487913

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The Challenges of Mental Health Caregiving by Ronda C. Talley,Gregory L. Fricchione,Benjamin G. Druss Pdf

Caring for the ill, disabled, very old, or very young requires a labor-intensive commitment that is not only essential to the well-being of individuals and to society as a whole, but also fraught with physical, financial, and psychological risks. And despite the critical nature of their job, caregivers rarely have avenues of support. The Challenges of Mental Health Caregiving addresses the complexities of the situation with uncommon depth and breadth. Suited to researchers, scientist-practitioners and clinicians, and students seeking a rounded understanding of the field, it examines how caregiving affects the lives, work, and mental health of family and professional caregivers. Chapters explore developmental, cultural, and spiritual contexts of care, addressing ongoing concerns about care in relation to larger health systems and emphasizing the need for care to be viewed as a community, rather than an individual or family experience. Further, the book's conclusion strongly advocates for more effective and efficient uses for available funds and resources while offering workable proposals for service improvements at the policy level. Key areas of coverage: The impact of caregiving on physical and mental health. Integrating mental health and primary care. The promotion of positive mental health outcomes in children and youth. Mid-life concerns and caregiver experience. Loss, grief, bereavement and the implications for mental health caregiving. Policy issues in caregiving and mental health. The Challenges of Mental Health Caregiving is a clear-sighted reference for researchers, clinicians and scientist-practitioners, and graduate students in the caregiving fields, including clinical psychology, social work, public health/medicine, geriatrics/gerontology, public policy, and educational policy.

Author : Phyllis Erdman,Tom Caffery
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2013-05-13
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781134946617

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Attachment and Family Systems by Phyllis Erdman,Tom Caffery Pdf

IAttachment and Family Systems is a cogent and compelling text addressing the undeniable overlap between two systems of thought that deal with the nature of interpersonal relationships and how these impact functioning. In this enlightening work, leading thinkers in the field apply attachment theory within a systemic framework to a variety of life cycle transitional tasks and clinical issues.

Author : Center for Practice Innovations,Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences (Case Western Reserve University)
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 447 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1994-03-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780803944312

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Family Caregiving Across the Lifespan by Center for Practice Innovations,Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences (Case Western Reserve University) Pdf

Examining caregiving issues from a multigenerational, family life cycle perspective, this volume deals with the broad spectrum of chronic illnesses that necessitate family caregiving throughout the lifespan and discusses responses to these challenges by both caregiving families and caregiving systems. Part One addresses the caregiving paradigm and the relationship of family caregiving research to family life studies. Part Two examines conceptual aspects of caregiving, ranging from the expansion of the caregiving paradigm, caregiving processes and tasks, to the positive aspects of caregiving. Part Three emphasizes how family caregivers are affected by the connection (or lack of it) to macro-level systems.

Author : National Research Council,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Committee on Human-Systems Integration,Committee on the Role of Human Factors in Home Health Care
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2010-11-14
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780309156295

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The Role of Human Factors in Home Health Care by National Research Council,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Committee on Human-Systems Integration,Committee on the Role of Human Factors in Home Health Care Pdf

The rapid growth of home health care has raised many unsolved issues and will have consequences that are far too broad for any one group to analyze in their entirety. Yet a major influence on the safety, quality, and effectiveness of home health care will be the set of issues encompassed by the field of human factors research-the discipline of applying what is known about human capabilities and limitations to the design of products, processes, systems, and work environments. To address these challenges, the National Research Council began a multidisciplinary study to examine a diverse range of behavioral and human factors issues resulting from the increasing migration of medical devices, technologies, and care practices into the home. Its goal is to lay the groundwork for a thorough integration of human factors research with the design and implementation of home health care devices, technologies, and practices. On October 1 and 2, 2009, a group of human factors and other experts met to consider a diverse range of behavioral and human factors issues associated with the increasing migration of medical devices, technologies, and care practices into the home. This book is a summary of that workshop, representing the culmination of the first phase of the study.

Author : Judith Solomon,Carol George
Publisher : Guilford Press
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2011-06-16
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781609181307

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Disorganized Attachment and Caregiving by Judith Solomon,Carol George Pdf

In this volume, leading authorities provide a state-of-the-art examination of disorganized attachment: what it is, how it can be identified, and its links to behavioral problems and psychological difficulties in childhood and beyond. The editors offer a fresh perspective on disorganized attachment, not as a characteristic of the infant or child but as the product of a dysregulated and disorganized parent–child relationship. They present cutting-edge research and exemplary treatment approaches. With attention to the subjective experiences of both mothers and children, the book shows how focusing on the caregiving system can advance research and clinical practice.

Author : Steven M. Jacobson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Electronic
ISBN : WISC:89079564662

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The Attachment, Caregiving, and Sexual Systems Relationship to Coflict Communication in Adult-pair-bond Relationships by Steven M. Jacobson Pdf

Author : Kate Washington
Publisher : Beacon Press
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2021-03-16
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780807011508

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Already Toast by Kate Washington Pdf

The story of one woman’s struggle to care for her seriously ill husband—and a revealing look at the role unpaid family caregivers play in a society that fails to provide them with structural support. Already Toast shows how all-consuming caregiving can be, how difficult it is to find support, and how the social and literary narratives that have long locked women into providing emotional labor also keep them in unpaid caregiving roles. When Kate Washington and her husband, Brad, learned that he had cancer, they were a young couple: professionals with ascending careers, parents to two small children. Brad’s diagnosis stripped those identities away: he became a patient and she his caregiver. Brad’s cancer quickly turned aggressive, necessitating a stem-cell transplant that triggered a massive infection, robbing him of his eyesight and nearly of his life. Kate acted as his full-time aide to keep him alive, coordinating his treatments, making doctors’ appointments, calling insurance companies, filling dozens of prescriptions, cleaning commodes, administering IV drugs. She became so burned out that, when she took an online quiz on caregiver self-care, her result cheerily declared: “You’re already toast!” Through it all, she felt profoundly alone, but, as she later learned, she was in fact one of millions: an invisible army of family caregivers working every day in America, their unpaid labor keeping our troubled healthcare system afloat. Because our culture both romanticizes and erases the realities of care work, few caregivers have shared their stories publicly. As the baby-boom generation ages, the number of family caregivers will continue to grow. Readable, relatable, timely, and often raw, Already Toast—with its clear call for paying and supporting family caregivers—is a crucial intervention in that conversation, bringing together personal experience with deep research to give voice to those tasked with the overlooked, vital work of caring for the seriously ill.

Author : Robert Alfred Ackerman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Man-woman relationships
ISBN : MSU:31293030625879

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The Interplay Between the Attachment, Caregiving, and Exploratory Behavioral Systems Within Adult Romantic Relationships by Robert Alfred Ackerman Pdf

Author : Margaret E. Blaustein,Kristine M. Kinniburgh
Publisher : Guilford Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2010-03-18
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781609180324

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Treating Traumatic Stress in Children and Adolescents by Margaret E. Blaustein,Kristine M. Kinniburgh Pdf

This book has been replaced by Treating Traumatic Stress in Children and Adolescents, Second Edition, ISBN 978-1-4625-3704-4.