CAREGIVING AND MENTAL HEALTH--A MULTIFACETED APPROACH

本计划项目将研究几个大的关注领域 关于成年儿童向残疾人过渡的过程， 人 三个独立的项目将探讨不同的问题， 巨大的压力，从一个家庭的游泳池， 已经在费城老年中心进行了研究， 招募新的家庭。 这三个项目将共享一个 共同数据核心，负责征聘工作， 主题选择、数据管理、访谈员培训， 安排访谈、数据质量控制和处理 分析之前的数据。 方案的共同主题 项目是研究变化的过程中， 心理健康的结果， 婚姻状况、家庭内部动态、生育期长短和 人的特征和社会背景。 婚姻 现状项目将研究相关因素和相关结果 有一次婚姻，多次婚姻，从未结婚，丧偶， 离异和分居的丧偶残疾人的女儿 年长的父母 家庭项目将研究这一过程， 制定新的方法，研究家庭一级对 影响生育。 护理职业项目将研究 受试者在一段较长的时间内， 包括从出生开始到死亡 受损的人。 这些研究的综合结果将 对生活的意义、家庭作为一个 研究单位，以及在研究范围内的研究地点。 照顾者的生活。 还将获得关于以下方面的新知识 妇女的角色，老年痴呆症患者之间的差异 病人和非痴呆症的身体受损的人- 家庭和家庭外就业， 星座作为变化的来源。

This Program Project will examine several large areas of concern regarding the process of caregiving by adult children to impaired people. Three separate projects will pursue different questions on caregiving stress, drawing from a pool of caregiving families that have already been studied at the Philadelphia Geriatric Center as well as recruiting new families. The three projects will share a common data core, which will be responsible for recruitment, subject selection, data management, training of interviewers, scheduling interviews, quality control of the data, and processing of the data prior to analysis. The common theme of the Program Project is the study of variations in the process of caregiving and the mental health outcomes of caregiving that are associated with marital status, intrafamilial dynamics, length of caregiving and characteristics of the person and her social setting. The Marital Status project will study the correlates and outcomes associated with once-married, multiply-married, never married, widowed, divorced and separated caregiving daughters of widowed impaired older parents. The Family project will study the process and develop new methods for study of family-level influences on and effects on caregiving. The Caregiving Career project will study subjects over an extended period of time, for varying periods including that from the beginning of caregiving until the death of the impaired person. The combined results of the studies will yeild new insights on the meaning of caregiving, the family as a unit for study, and the place of caregiving within the context of the caregiver's life. New knowledge will also be gained about women's roles, the differences between caregiving for Alzheimers patients and nondemented physically impaired people within- household and extra-household caregiving, and household constellations as sources of variation in caregiving.