TY - JOUR
T1 - Family care for older adults with disabilities
T2 - Toward more targeted and interpretable research
AU - Gaugler, Joseph E.
AU - Kane, Robert L.
AU - Kane, Rosalie A.
N1 - Copyright:
Copyright 2008 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2002
Y1 - 2002
N2 - Family care of the elderly is key to the long-term care system, and its importance has led to an abundance of research over the past two decades. Several methodological and substantive issues, if addressed, could create even more targeted and interpretable research. The present review critically examines methodological topics (i.e., definitions of family caregiving, measurement of caregiving inputs) and conceptual issues (i.e., family involvement in long-term residential settings, and the care receiver's perspective on care) that have received insufficient attention in the caregiving literature. Throughout this review recommendations are offered to improve these areas and advance the state of the art.
AB - Family care of the elderly is key to the long-term care system, and its importance has led to an abundance of research over the past two decades. Several methodological and substantive issues, if addressed, could create even more targeted and interpretable research. The present review critically examines methodological topics (i.e., definitions of family caregiving, measurement of caregiving inputs) and conceptual issues (i.e., family involvement in long-term residential settings, and the care receiver's perspective on care) that have received insufficient attention in the caregiving literature. Throughout this review recommendations are offered to improve these areas and advance the state of the art.
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U2 - 10.2190/FACK-QE61-Y2J8-5L68
DO - 10.2190/FACK-QE61-Y2J8-5L68
M3 - Article
C2 - 12148687
AN - SCOPUS:0036073776
SN - 0091-4150
VL - 54
SP - 205
EP - 231
JO - International Journal of Aging and Human Development
JF - International Journal of Aging and Human Development
IS - 3
ER -