UPC: 9780120595402 | Profiles in Caregiving : The Unexpected Career (Paperback)

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More and more people are being pressed into service as caregivers for their siblings parents or spouses with Alzheimer s or other Dementia. This landmark work traces the experiences of family members in the caregiving role identifying common stress factors and discussing how stress affects the caregiver s well-being. This book is a practical source of information for anyone who teaches caregiving acts as a caregiver or studies caregiving. 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. Despite medical advances there is still no cure for dementia and as elderly individuals succumb to Alzheimer s Disease or related dementia more and more people are having to care their elderly parents and /or siblings. Profiles in Caregiving is practical source of information for anyone who teaches caregiving acts as a caregiver or studies caregiving. This book discusses recent research on stress factors associated with caregiving and what factors impact on successful versus non-successful adaptation to the care-giving role. This is an expanding field in gerontology and is also of interest to personality and social psychologists studying stress and interpersonal relations. Although there are many books on the cause and treatment of dementia there has been a book that provides a research investigation into the factors associated with effective caregiving to dementia patients.