Family Caregiving: Impact of Patient Functioning and Underlying Causes of Dependency
- 1 June 1988
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in The Gerontologist
- Vol. 28 (3) , 377-382
- https://doi.org/10.1093/geront/28.3.377
Abstract
Diseases affect the health and functional status of patients in different ways and, in turn, have variable impacts on their family caregivers. Using hip fracture, dementia, and stroke as examples, illustrated is how physical, social, psychological, and cognitive disabilities place different demands on caregivers.Keywords
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