Profiles In Caregiving : The Unexpected Career - 95 edition

Aneshensel, Carol S. : University of California-Los Angeles

Pearlin, Leonard I. : University of California-San Francisco / University of Maryland College Park

Mullan, Joseph T. : University of California-San Francisco

Zarit, Steven H. : Pennsylvania State University Main Campus

Whitlatch, Carol J. : University of California-San Francisco

"This unique book sensitizes as well as informs; its special merit is its artful interspersion of poignant commentary and quotations from individual caregivers, giving personalized meaning and humanistic vitality that can bring tears as it speaks to the heart of the reader. Suitable figures, tables, and photographs. Academic scholarship at its best. Important reading for teachers, administrations, researchers, and clinicians in geriatrics, and an imperative acquisition for libraries servings the needs of such users."

-- Choice

"A study tracing the experience of husbands, wives, daughters, and sons caring for family members with Alzheimer's disease . Discusses both common stress factors and the way stress affects the caregiver's physical and emotional well-being. The personal stories of four caregivers are woven throughout."

-- SciTech Book News

"The authors of this monograph are among the foremost researchers and theorists in health psychology and gerontology, and they have produced a volume that is arguably the most comprehensive view to date of the experience of caring for a family member with Alzheimer's disease (AD).... Profiles in Caregiving could well become an indispensable reference not only for researchers and policymakers but also for professionals whose aim is to ease the burden borne by AD caregivers."

-- Gail M. Williamson in Contemporary Psychology

Academic Press Web Site, May, 2000

Setting the Stage.
Caregiving Careers and Stress Processes.
An Empirical Inquiry into Caregiving.
The Organization of Stressors in the Lives of Caregivers.
The Natural History of Care-Related Stress.
Stress Proliferation.
The Containment of Care-Related Stressors.
The Transition to Institutional Care.
Adaptation Following Institutionalization.
The Timing and Settings of Patient Death.
Bereavement.
Clinical Interventions and Caregiving Careers.
Implications for Public Policy and Society.
A Review and Overview of Caregiving Careers.

References.
Index.

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