People are living longer and with that, caregiving responsibilities fall on family members. Discuss issues associated with providing care for older family members and include the notion of caregiver burden.
What will be an ideal response?
Answers may include:
a. Caregiving can be informal (i.e., provided by unpaid volunteers, family members, or friends) or formal (i.e., provided by paid care workers) and can take the form of different types of assistance. Instrumental support (hands-on assistance with daily functioning) and emotional support (actions and gestures expressing affection and encouragement) are two general types of assistance that researchers have frequently explored (Pearlin, Aneshensel, Mullan, & Whitlatch, 1995)
b. Family caregiving is provided by spouses, adult children, extended family members, and fictive kin, and the motivation to provide care is what sets it apart from assistance supplied by more formal sources. Family members provide care because of feelings of love and affection, intergenerational solidarity (Silverstein & Bengtson, 2001), or filial responsibility (Silverstein, Gans, & Yang, 2006). However, in some cases, care is provided because of family pressure to do so or because there is no one else to do it (Piercy & Chapman, 2001).
c. Gender—more women are caregivers
d. Culture
e. Caregivers often face extensive demands on their time as well as difficulties that test their physical and mental endurance, referred to as caregiver burden. Caregiver burden is a “multidimensional response to the negative appraisal and perceived stress resulting from taking care of an ill individual, [and it] threatens the physical, psychological, emotional, and function health of caregivers”.
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