CAREGIVING AND MENTAL HEALTH--A MULTIFACETED APPROACH

本计划项目将考察几个值得关注的大领域 关于成年子女照顾残障人士的过程 人民。三个独立的项目将就以下问题提出不同的问题 照顾压力，来自一群照顾家庭的人 已经在费城老年中心被研究为 以及招募新的家庭。这三个项目将共享一个 将负责征聘的共同数据核心， 选题、数据管理、采访者培训、 安排访谈、数据质量控制和处理 在分析之前的数据。节目的共同主题 项目是对照看和护理过程中的变化进行研究 护理的心理健康结果与以下因素相关 婚姻状况、家庭内部动态、照顾时间长短和 这个人的特点和她的社会环境。婚姻 Status项目将研究相关因素和相关结果 一次结婚，多次结婚，从未结婚，丧偶， 丧偶残疾人士的离异和分居照顾女儿 年长的父母。家庭项目将研究这一过程并 开发新的方法研究家庭层面对家庭的影响和 对照看的影响。护理事业项目将研究 受试者在一段较长的时间内，不同的时期 包括从开始照顾到死亡 受损害的人。两项研究的综合结果将 对照顾的意义有了新的见解，家庭作为一种 在以下情况下的学习单位和照料地点 照顾者的生活。还将获得关于以下方面的新知识 女性的角色，照顾阿尔茨海默症患者的差异 在以下范围内的病人和非痴呆性肢体残疾人士- 家庭和非家庭照看，以及家庭 星座是照看能力变化的来源。

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.