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Direct linkLyons, Karen S.; Stewart, Barbara J.; Archbold, Patricia G.; Carter, Julie H. – Gerontologist, 2009
Purpose: There is wide variability in how spouses providing care respond to their care situations. Few studies focus on the roles of both intra- and interpersonal factors in long-term spousal care, particularly in the context of Parkinson's disease (PD). The current study uses longitudinal data over a 10-year period to examine the roles of…
Descriptors: Spouses, Physical Disabilities, Dementia, Diseases
Haley, William E.; Bergman, Elizabeth J.; Roth, David L.; McVie, Theresa; Gaugler, Joseph E.; Mittelman, Mary S. – Gerontologist, 2008
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to examine the joint effects of bereavement and caregiver intervention on caregiver depressive symptoms. Design and Methods: Alzheimer's caregivers from a randomized trial of an enhanced caregiver support intervention versus usual care who had experienced the death of their spouse (n = 254) were repeatedly…
Descriptors: Grief, Intervention, Dementia, Caregivers
Ott, Carol H.; Sanders, Sara; Kelber, Sheryl T. – Gerontologist, 2007
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to describe the grief and personal growth experience of spouses and adult children of individuals with Alzheimer's disease and related dementias and the factors contributing to these experiences. Design and Methods: We used a modification of the Marwit-Meuser-Sanders Caregiver Grief model to examine the…
Descriptors: Spouses, Grief, Alzheimers Disease, Caregivers
Peer reviewedTraupmann, Jane; And Others – Gerontologist, 1982
Discusses intimacy as a multidimensional concept with particular attention paid to love and sexuality among older women. Women's life satisfaction and psychological well-being were related to their satisfaction with their intimate relationship. Passionate and companionate love as well as sexual satisfaction were related to contentment with…
Descriptors: Females, Gerontology, Interpersonal Relationship, Life Satisfaction
Bernard, Lori L.; Guarnaccia, Charles A. – Gerontologist, 2003
Purpose: Caregiver bereavement adjustment literature suggests opposite models of impact of role strain on bereavement adjustment after care-recipient death--a Complicated Grief Model and a Relief Model. This study tests these competing models for husband and adult-daughter caregivers of breast cancer hospice patients. Design and Methods: This…
Descriptors: Hospices (Terminal Care), Spouses, Grief, Daughters
Amirkhanyan, Anna A.; Wolf, Douglas A. – Gerontologist, 2003
Purpose: This study examines depressive symptoms among adult children of elderly parents; it views the parents' care needs and child's care activities as two separate stressors, different combinations of which may affect both caregiving and noncaregiving family members. Design and Methods: A sample of 4,380 women and 3,965 men from the first wave…
Descriptors: Siblings, Caregivers, Multiple Regression Analysis, Depression (Psychology)
