Adult Child Caregiver Health Trajectories and the Impact of Multiple Roles Over Time

2014 ◽  
Vol 37 (3) ◽  
pp. 227-252 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amanda E. Barnett
Keyword(s):  
Adult Child ◽  
Multiple Roles ◽  
Caregiver Health ◽  
Health Trajectories ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Adult Child Caregiver ◽  
Over Time ◽  
Child Caregiver

Incorporating Family/Caregivers Into the Treatment Process From the First Meeting

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark D. Miller
Keyword(s):  
Family Caregivers ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Treatment Process ◽  
Adult Child ◽  
Interpersonal Psychotherapy ◽  
Illustrative Case ◽  
The Family ◽  
Inadequate Care ◽  
Adult Child Caregiver ◽  
Child Caregiver

Chapter 8 discusses the involvement of the family or caregivers into the interpersonal psychotherapy (IPT) treatment process. Using illustrative case studies, it outlines the roles of the adult child caregiver (including the issues that adult caregivers may face, shared caregiving duties, inadequate care), spouses are caregivers, adult child/intact spouse collaboration, and nonfamily caregivers.

scholarly journals HEALTH TRAJECTORIES OVER TIME IN THE ATHLOS PROJECT: FINDINGS FROM MULTIPLE COHORTS

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. S798-S798
Author(s):  
Matthew Prina
Keyword(s):  
Physical Activity ◽  
Alcohol Consumption ◽  
Cohort Studies ◽  
Healthy Ageing ◽  
The Third ◽  
Health Trajectories ◽  
Working Together ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Over Time

Abstract The ATHLOS (Ageing Trajectories of Health: Longitudinal Opportunities and Synergies) project is a consortium of 15 partners across Europe who are working together to understand patterns of healthy ageing trajectories, and to seek the factors that determine those patterns, in a harmonised dataset of 17 international cohort studies of ageing. During this symposium we will be presenting some of the work that has recently been carried out within this project. The symposium will consist of four talks: the first talk will introduce the project, and describe the preliminary work that took place within the first few years of the project, and the challenges faced by the consortium. The second talk will focus on the harmonisation process and on the development of the health metric, an indicator used to measure healthy ageing in this project. The third talk will focus on inequalities in healthy ageing, specifically investigating the impact of education and wealth across cohorts. Finally, in the last talk we will describe the role of lifestyle behaviours (specifically physical activity, smoking and alcohol consumption) and their impact on healthy ageing trajectories.

scholarly journals Burden and Depressive Symptoms Associated with Adult-Child Caregiving for Individuals with Heart Failure

2014 ◽  
Vol 2014 ◽  
pp. 1-6 ◽  
Author(s):  
Selma Bozkurt Zincir ◽  
Murat Sunbul ◽  
Serkan Zincir ◽  
Esra Aydin Sunbul ◽  
Mustafa Oguz ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Heart Failure ◽  
Depressive Symptoms ◽  
Marital Status ◽  
Caregiver Burden ◽  
Adult Child ◽  
Affecting Factors ◽  
Child Caregivers ◽  
Burden Scale ◽  
Adult Child Caregiver ◽  
Child Caregiver

Background. The primary purpose of this study was to investigate adult-child caregiver burden in heart failure (HF) patients. Secondary purpose of the study was to identify the possible influencing factors for caregiver burden and depressive symptoms in a young adult-child caregiver group.Methods. A total of 138 adult-child caregivers and 138 patients with HF participated in this study. Caregivers’ burden, depressive symptoms, and anxiety levels were assessed by using Zarit Caregiver Burden Scale (ZCBS), Beck Depression Inventory, and State-Trait Anxiety Inventory, respectively.Results. The mean ZCBS scores of the female caregivers were significantly higher than male caregivers. Approximately one-third of the adult-child caregivers had at least mild depressive symptoms. Caregivers with higher depressive symptoms had higher levels of caregiver burden. There were positive correlations between caregiving time, severity of depressive symptoms, and perceived caregiver burden. There was a negative correlation between education level of caregivers and perceived caregiver burden. Age, socioeconomic level, and marital status of patients were affecting factors for depressive symptoms in caregivers. Among caregiver characteristics, gender, marital status, and ZCBS scores seem to influence the depression in caregivers.Conclusions. The study findings suggest significant levels of burden and depressive symptoms even in adult-child caregivers of HF patients.

scholarly journals Changes in Adult Child Caregiver Networks

2007 ◽  
Vol 47 (3) ◽  
pp. 280-295 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. E. Szinovacz ◽  
A. Davey
Keyword(s):  
Adult Child ◽  
Adult Child Caregiver ◽  
Child Caregiver

scholarly journals Childhood Abuse and Caregiving for Perpetrating Parents: Impacts on Adult Child Well-Being

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. 319-320
Author(s):  
Jaime Goldberg ◽  
Jooyoung Kong ◽  
Sara Moorman
Keyword(s):  
Depressive Symptoms ◽  
Childhood Abuse ◽  
Adult Child ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Life Course Perspective ◽  
Psychological Resources ◽  
Emotional Closeness ◽  
Contact Frequency ◽  
Adult Child Caregiver ◽  
Child Caregiver

Abstract Combining the stress process model of caregiving and life course perspective, this study examined the long-term influences of childhood abuse on perpetrating parent-adult child relationships and adult child well-being in the context of caregiving. Using a sample of family caregivers from the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study (969 caregivers of mothers; 280 caregivers of fathers), we investigated whether contact frequency and emotional closeness with an abusive parent mediate the longitudinal effects of parental childhood abuse on adult child caregivers’ depressive symptoms and the moderating effects of self-acceptance and mastery on this mediational association. Key findings indicate that maternal childhood abuse may negatively affect emotional closeness between an adult child caregiver and perpetrating mother (b = -0.24, p < .001). This could lead the adult child caregiver to experience increased depressive symptoms (b = 0.02, p < .05). Although the mediation paths for the effect of maternal childhood abuse on depressive symptoms via emotional closeness with mothers did not differ by caregivers’ level of psychological resources, we found that psychological resources significantly moderated the association between maternal childhood abuse and depressive symptoms (b = -0.08, p < .05). Further research may explore this phenomenon in light of the heterogeneity of contemporary families. Practitioners working with adults with a history of parental childhood abuse who are caregiving for their perpetrator are encouraged to employ a trauma-informed approach to maximize the caregivers’ health and well-being.

scholarly journals CHOICE MODERATES RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN LEVEL AND DURATION OF CARE AND THE HEALTH IMPACT OF CARING FOR AN OLDER PARENT

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. S109-S109
Author(s):  
Robin Tarter ◽  
Dena Hassouneh ◽  
Allison Lindauer ◽  
Nathan Dieckmann
Keyword(s):  
Emotional Stress ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Structural Equation Models ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Adult Child ◽  
Health Impact ◽  
Caregiver Health ◽  
Perceived Choice ◽  
The Impact ◽  
National Alliance

Abstract The perception of choice in the caregiving role has emerged as a key theme in qualitative gerontological caregiving research but few studies have examined choice quantitatively. The aim of our study was to test whether perceived choice moderated the relation between level and duration of care and the health impact of caring for a parent over the age of 65. We tested these questions in a series of structural equation models using existing data from the National Alliance for Caregiving, Caregiving in the U.S. 2015 Survey. We found that for adult-child caregivers of parents who reported a lack of choice in taking on the caregiving role, greater responsibilities for assistance with activities of daily living (ADLs) (p<0.01) and instrumental ADLS (p<0.01), and greater time providing care (p<0.05) predicted the negative impact of caregiving on caregiver health. The number of ADLs performed also predicted the emotional stress of caregiving for parents (p<0.01). Conversely, for caregivers who reported that they did have a choice in taking on the caregiving role, level and duration of care were not significantly related to the impact of caregiving on caregiver health, or the emotional stress of caregiving. Women were significantly more likely to report a lack of choice than men (p<0.05). Additional research is needed to explore the meaning of choice, and the ways in which choice may be especially constrained for daughters who care for older adults, in order to develop interventions to ameliorate the potentially deleterious health effects of caregiving on adult-children.

The Therapist’s Reaction to a Patient’s Suicide

Crisis ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 99-105 ◽  
Author(s):  
Friedrich Martin Wurst ◽  
Isabella Kunz ◽  
Gregory Skipper ◽  
Manfred Wolfersdorf ◽  
Karl H. Beine ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Emotional Responses ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Emotional Reaction ◽  
Emotional Reactions ◽  
Analog Scale ◽  
General Hospitals ◽  
Item Questionnaire ◽  
Retrospective Nature ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Over Time

Background: A substantial proportion of therapists experience the loss of a patient to suicide at some point during their professional life. Aims: To assess (1) the impact of a patient’s suicide on therapists distress and well-being over time, (2) which factors contribute to the reaction, and (3) which subgroup might need special interventions in the aftermath of suicide. Methods: A 63-item questionnaire was sent to all 185 Psychiatric Clinics at General Hospitals in Germany. The emotional reaction of therapists to patient’s suicide was measured immediately, after 2 weeks, and after 6 months. Results: Three out of ten therapists suffer from severe distress after a patients’ suicide. The item “overall distress” immediately after the suicide predicts emotional reactions and changes in behavior. The emotional responses immediately after the suicide explained 43.5% of the variance of total distress in a regression analysis. Limitations: The retrospective nature of the study is its primary limitation. Conclusions: Our data suggest that identifying the severely distressed subgroup could be done using a visual analog scale for overall distress. As a consequence, more specific and intensified help could be provided to these professionals.

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