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The informal caregiver's burden of dependent people: Theory and empirical review.
Jorge GarcésVicente SanjoséStephanie CarreteroFrancisco Ródenassubject
AgingHealth (social science)Health Services for the AgedEmpirical ResearchPersones gransPoliticsEmpirical researchCost of IllnessOrder (exchange)Respite careProfessional-Family RelationsIntervention (counseling)Psychological TheoryHumansAgedbusiness.industryPersones grans dependentsPublic relationsLong-term careCaregiversWorkforceWorkforceGeriatrics and GerontologybusinessPsychologyPsychological TheoryGerontologySocial psychologydescription
This paper reviews the main theories and results of the existing research to date about the concept of the informal caregiver's burden. The explanation of the burden concept, the theoretical approaches which attempt to explain it, the variables which have emerged in the investigation, the predictors of its appearance, as well as the intervention programs developed to relieve burden, allow us to approach the appropriate solutions to deal with the current social and political reality of this problem. In this sense, the psycho-educational intervention programs framed within the respite services jointly with the knowledge of the determining variables of the burden can comprise the first optimal approach in order to effectively deal with the burden problem of the informal caregivers of dependent senior citizens.
| year | journal | country | edition | language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2009-01-01 |