Family Caregiving Across the Lifespan
Edited by:
- Eva Kahana - Case Western Reserve University, USA
- David E. Biegel - Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA
- May Wykle - Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA
448 pages | SAGE Publications, Inc
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.
Eva Kahana, David E Biegel, and May L Wykle
Introduction
PART ONE: PARADIGMS FOR CAREGIVING
Eva Kahana et al
Developmental Challenges and Family Caregiving
Joan Aldous
Someone to Watch Over Me
Elizabeth Midlarsky
Altruism Through the Life Course
Eugene Litwak, Dorothy Jones Jessop, and Heather J Moulton
Optimal Use of Formal and Informal Systems Over the Life Course
PART TWO: ILLNESS AND LIFE STAGE: CHALLENGES FOR CAREGIVING
Joan M Patterson and Barbara J Leonard
Caregiving and Children
Patricia Flatley Brennan and Shirley M Moore
Caregivers of Persons Living With AIDS
David E Biegel, Li-yu Song and Venkatesan Chakravarthy
Predictors of Caregiver Burden Among Support Group Members of Persons With Chronic Mental Illness
Catherine F Kane
Psychoeducational Programs
Charles W Given and Barbara A Given
The Home Care of a Patient With Cancer
Rosalie F Young and Eva Kahana
Caregiving Issues After a Heart Attack
PART THREE: THE INTERFACE BETWEEN FORMAL CARE PROVIDERS AND CAREGIVING FAMILIES
Lucy Rose Fischer and Nancy N Eustis
Care at Home
Jack H Medalie
The Caregiver as the Hidden Patient
Anne E Kazak and Dimitri A Christakis
Caregiving Issues in Families of Children With Chronic Medical Conditions
Linda S Noelker and David M Bass
Relationships Between the Frail Elderly's Informal and Formal Helpers
Eva Kahana, David E Biegel, and May L Wykle
Conclusion