✦ LIBER ✦
Institutionalization of an elderly family member: Reactions of spouse and nonspouse caregivers
✍ Scribed by Sharon King; Clare Collins; Barbara Given; Janet Vredevoogd
- Book ID
- 103923052
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1991
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 853 KB
- Volume
- 5
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1532-8228
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✦ Synopsis
Although a prevalent clinical assumption is that the caregiver well-being improves following patient institutionalization, recent research challenges this assumption. In this article, the impact of patient institutionalization on the well-being of family caregivers is examined. Caregiver reaction, sense of general well-being and level of depression are compared pre- and postinstitutionalization and differences between spouse, adult child, and other caregivers are investigated.