Caregiving Appraisal in Family Caregivers of Older Adults
| Autor: | Shima Nazari, Maryam Rassouli, Narjes Khatoon Sadeghi, Mahshid Foroughan, Leila Sadegh Moghadam, Akram Farhadi, Farahnaz Mohammadi |
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| Jazyk: | perština |
| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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Gerontology
Aging 030504 nursing Family caregivers lcsh:Public aspects of medicine lcsh:RA1-1270 lcsh:Geriatrics Review literature 03 medical and health sciences lcsh:RC952-954.6 0302 clinical medicine Elderly 030212 general & internal medicine Selfappraisal Geriatrics and Gerontology 0305 other medical science Psychology |
| Zdroj: | Sālmand, Vol 11, Iss 1, Pp 8-19 (2016) |
| Popis: | Objectives: With increasing the older adults’ population, the old age diseases increase, as well as olderpeople’s dependency and need for care. This issue further highlights the importance of attention tofamily caregiving and experiences. Among the concepts related to family caregiving, the concept of selfappraisalof caregiver has a special role in acceptance, continuance, and outcomes of caregiving. Thisstudy aimed to review all aspects of caregiving appraisal concept in family caregivers. Methods & Materials: The current study is a review study. To examine the concept of family caregiverappraisal, all articles without time limitation were searched in databases of Google Scholar, ProQuest,Scopus, and PubMed with keywords of “appraisal,” “caregiving,” “family caregiving,” “burden,” “satisfaction,”“positive aspect,” “negative aspect,” “older adults,” and “elderly.” The Iranian databases of IranMedex,IranDoc, and SID were also searched with equivalent Persian Keywords. Results: Many factors such as social, cultural, and personal characteristics can influence the caregivers’perception. This subjective appraisal makes caregivers not to perceive their conditions the same, in spiteof stressful situation of caregiving. Some caregivers have positive experiences in this condition and someperceive stress more than what actually exist. This will create negative outcomes for the health andwelfare of the caregivers. Conclusion: Caregiving appraisal is a multidimensional concept, which has positive and negative aspects.By taking into account all aspects of this concept, one can better understand and ultimately has a morecomprehensive assessment of the status of caregivers, and implement effective interventions towardsimproving the health of this group. |
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