Authors: David W. Coon
ISBN-13: 9780826148018, ISBN-10: 0826148018
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Springer Publishing Company, Incorporated
Date Published: January 2003
Edition: (Non-applicable)
David W. Coon, PhD, is a licensed psychologist and Research Scientist/Project Director at the Institute of Aging (formerly Goldman Institute on Aging).
Dolores Gallagher-Thompson, PhD, ABPP, is Professor of Research in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the Stanford University School of Medicine and has been for many years the Director of the Older Adult and Family Center of the VA Palo Alto Health Care System and Stanford University.
Larry W. Thompson, PhD, is Professor (Active) Emeritus at the Stanford University School of Medicine. He was the Director of the Older Adult and Family Center until his retirement. He is also Editor-in-Chief of the Clinical Gerontologist Journal.
Health researchers, practitioners, and policy makers provide strategies for assisting distressed caregivers and improving quality of life for both caregivers and dementia patients. The volume's 14 chapters outline current problems in the area of caregiving, and then develop several solution approaches such as the use of technological advances and the partnering of caregivers with primary care physicians. The volume includes interventions for a multicultural society; specific stressors of spousal caregivers: difficult behaviors, loss of sexual intimacy, and incontinence; and ethnic minority caregivers. Annotation (c)2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
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Preface | ||
1 | Family Caregivers: Enduring and Emergent Themes | 3 |
2 | Monitoring and Evaluating Interventions | 28 |
3 | Interventions for a Multicultural Society | 50 |
4 | Specific Stressors of Spousal Caregivers: Difficult Behaviors, Loss of Sexual Intimacy, and Incontinence | 77 |
5 | Family Interventions to Address the Needs of the Caregiving System | 99 |
6 | Skill-Building: Psychoeducational Strategies | 119 |
7 | In-Home Interventions: Helping Caregivers Where They Live | 139 |
8 | Primary Care: Partnering With Health Care Providers | 161 |
9 | Capitalizing on Technological Advances | 189 |
10 | Anticipatory Grief and Loss: Implications for Intervention | 210 |
11 | Ethnic Minority Caregivers | 223 |
12 | Male Caregivers: Challenges and Opportunities | 243 |
13 | The Families We Choose: Intervention Issues With LGBT Caregivers | 267 |
14 | Future Directions in Dementia Caregiving Intervention Research and Practice | 299 |
Index | 312 |