Purpose: To clarify and delineate conceptualizations of the effects of caregiving for nursing
research and practice with family caregivers. Organizing Construct: The biopsychosocial …

Given medical advances and greater understanding of healthful living habits, people are
living longer lives. Proportionally speaking, a greater percentage of the population is elderly …

Caregivers experience numerous mental and physical health effects from the stress of
providing care, but we know little about whether these problems persist in the long term and …

Of all the demographic changes of the last century, perhaps the one that has altered the
characteristics of the human life span most is the increase in life expectancy. Old age was …

Eighty percent of adults requiring long-term care currently live at home in the community,
and unpaid family caregivers provide 90% of their care. Family caregivers serve as a critical …

Background Caregiver interventions may help improve the quality of informal care. Yet the
lack of a systematic framework specifying the targets and outcomes of caregiver …

OBJECTIVES To examine factors associated with caregiver burden from a multifactorial
perspective by examining caregiver and care recipient characteristics and a full range of …

This article focuses on the physical health of persons who provide care to family members
and friends with dementia. Such caregivers are under extended chronic stress because of …

Caregivers for dependent elders have been the subject of numerous studies in recent years.
This first wave of research demonstrates that caregiving is demanding and may be …