This study indicates that in order to achieve customized support for informal caregivers, the difference in needs of various types of central informal caregivers (e.g. spouses versus sons/daughters (in-law)) and the living situation of the people with dementia (living at home versus residential elderly care) must be taken into account.
The purpose of this study was to examine if psychosocial intervention for family caregivers made any differences in describing symptoms of dementia in the persons they cared for.
The two South Korean studies suggested home was more frequently preferred as the place of death than the place of care amongst caregivers (but with differences no greater than 2%) [ 46, 71], whilst two studies – the Adelaide palliative care program RCT and Hinton's study of home care patients at a hospice in London (1984 86) – suggested the opposite [ 18, 56].
However, it has been difficult to determine the degree of efficiency of such educational programs for primary caregivers, due to differences in methodology and content: these programs have been implemented by various support services and aid groups, with very different aims, contents and forms of action.
Males and females experience caregiving differently, and explanations of sex differences in caregiver burden are that males and females live in different structural contexts, which leads to different kinds and intensities of stressors to which people are exposed.
OBJECTIVES: To expand understanding of caregiver burden and psychosocial-spiritual outcomes among understudied groups of caregivers-cancer, congestive heart failure, and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease caregivers-by including differences by disease in a diverse population.
But over several years of studying the differences between caregivers and non-caregivers in four locations (Baltimore, Pittsburgh, Minneapolis and Portland, Ore ., Dr. Fredman and her colleagues found that while caregivers were indeed more stressed, they still had lower mortality rates than non-caregivers over eight years of follow-up.
Results from the preassessment and postassessment show that caregivers noted the difference in quality of care.
The difference between caregivers and non-caregivers SRH was significant (p ≤ 0.01).
There were significant differences between caregivers and non-caregivers in ethnicity and marital status.
