{"product_id":"caregiving-systems-9780805810943","title":"Caregiving Systems","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eCaregiving has emerged as a critical issue in the second half of the life cycle. With the growth of the older population, there have been dramatic increases in the number of people needing care and assistance. The responsibility for care typically falls on families at a time when they have limited resources to meet these needs. At a societal level, the need for care for growing numbers of disabled elders poses a major challenge for how to organize supportive services in an efficient and responsive system.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Bringing together multiple perspectives on caregiving, the authors' explore informal and formal family caregiving and the pivotal issue of how these systems interface and interact. An overview of this variation is provided by examining family caregiving from three perspectives:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e * the effects of culture on helping patterns and family responsibility,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e * how different disabilities affect patterns of family care, and \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e * longitudinal perspectives on the im\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"...provides a scholarly examination of formal and informal systems of care.\"\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eFSP Update\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"...provides readers the opportunity to reflect on where research has been focused....suggests that the challenge for the next generation of caregiving researchers continues to be the interface of the informal and formal systems in the development of implementation, use, and evaluation of successful interventions.\"\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eContemporary Psychology\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eContents: K.W. Schaie,\u003c\/b\u003e Preface. \u003cb\u003ePart I:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eInformal Systems of Care.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eS.H. Zarit,\u003c\/b\u003e Introduction to Part I. \u003cb\u003eE. Yu, W.T. Liu, Z-Y. Wang, P.S. Levy, R. Katzman, M-Y. Zhang, G-Y. Qu, F-F. Chen,\u003c\/b\u003e Caregivers of the Cognitively Impaired and the Disabled in Shanghai, China. \u003cb\u003eL.C. Yu,\u003c\/b\u003e Intergenerational Transfer of Resources Within Policy and Cultural Contexts. \u003cb\u003eL.M. Burton, S. Sörensen,\u003c\/b\u003e Temporal Context and the Caregiver Role: Perspectives from Ethnographic Studies of Multigeneration African-American Families. \u003cb\u003eR. Morycz,\u003c\/b\u003e Caregiving Families and Cross-Cultural Perspectives. \u003cb\u003eW.R. Avison, R.J. Turner, S. Noh, K.N. Speechley,\u003c\/b\u003e The Impact of Caregiving: Comparisons of Different Family Contexts and Experiences. \u003cb\u003eA.M. Matthews,\u003c\/b\u003e Issues in the Examination of the Caregiving Relationship. \u003cb\u003eR. Schulz, G.M. Williamson, R. Morycz, D.E. Beigel,\u003c\/b\u003e Changes in Depression Among Men and Women Caring for an Alzheimer's Patient. \u003cb\u003eM.A. Smyer,\u003c\/b\u003e Caregiving Research: Juggling While Walking. \u003cb\u003eL.I. Pearlin, S.H. Zarit,\u003c\/b\u003e Research into Informal Caregiving: Current Perspectives and Future Directions. \u003cb\u003ePart II:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eFormal Systems of Care.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eS.H. Zarit,\u003c\/b\u003e Introduction to Part II. \u003cb\u003eC. Harrington,\u003c\/b\u003e Social Health Maintenance Organizations: An Innovative Financing and Service Delivery Model. \u003cb\u003eD. Brannon,\u003c\/b\u003e Are SHMOs Remedies to Bureaucracy? \u003cb\u003eG. Niederehe,\u003c\/b\u003e Public Policy Issues Related to the SHMO Demonstrations and Alzheimer's Disease. \u003cb\u003eL. Lévesque,\u003c\/b\u003e Québec Home-Care Services: A Program at the Local Community Level. \u003cb\u003eC.J. Whitlatch,\u003c\/b\u003e The Direction of Home-Based Community Care in Québec: The Effects on Caregiving Families. \u003cb\u003eJ.T. Mullan,\u003c\/b\u003e Barriers to the Use of Formal Services Among Alzheimer's Caregivers. \u003cb\u003eM.A.P. Stephens,\u003c\/b\u003e Understanding Barriers to Caregivers' Use of Formal Services: The Caregiver's Perspective. \u003cb\u003eR.A. Kane, J.D. Penrod,\u003c\/b\u003e Family Caregiving Policies: Insights from an Intensive Longitudinal Study. \u003cb\u003eA.L. Townsend,\u003c\/b\u003e Methodological Issues Confronting Research on Service Use Among Caregiving Families. \u003cb\u003eS.H. Zarit, L.I. Pearlin,\u003c\/b\u003e Family Caregiving: Integrating Informal and Formal Systems for Care.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52218337231191,"sku":"9780805810943","price":176.17,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780805810943.jpg?v=1764024239","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/caregiving-systems-9780805810943","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}