Cultural Correlates of Burden in Primary Caregivers of Older Relatives: A Cross‐sectional Study

Abstract

A risk profile could be proposed for subjective burden in primary family caregivers. Individuals who are at risk are characterized as young, offspring who live with the care recipient, care for a care recipient with behavioral problems, are unsatisfied with the social support received, and have a low balanced reciprocity.

A Multicenter Pilot Study of Burden Among Caregivers of Geriatric Rehabilitation Patients With Neuromusculoskeletal Diseases

“…Consistent with previous evidence of a higher level of burden among women, female caregivers in our study experienced greater physical burdens than their male counterparts (Akpınar, K€ uc ߀ ukg€ uc ßl€ u, & Yener, 2011;Del-Pino-Casado et al, 2014;McDonnell & Ryan, 2013). In Turkey and worldwide, caregiving burden falls primarily on women.…”

“…Cognitive, functional, and psychological problems in the elderly patients might also negatively affect the caregiver's ability to cope with the patient's condition. Long-term care of a geriatric patient with musculoskeletal conditions might represent a chronic burden that results in vulnerability to physical and psychological problems (Del-Pino-Casado, Milian-Cobo, Palomino-Moral, & Frias-Osuna, 2014;Nayeri, Gholizadeh, Mohammadi, & Yazdi, 2015). Caregiver Burden Inventory was shown to be an effective multidimensional tool for evaluating the impact of burden on many aspects of the caregiver's life, including physical, social, and emotional dimensions (K€ uc ߀ ukg€ uc ßl€ u et al, 2009).…”

Social support for elderly people over 65 years in Spain

“…The results of our study related to the profile of the main caregiver are similar to those previously reported in other studies; the main caregiver is characterized as female, a first‐degree relative, married, with primary schooling and in the middle class (Del Pino‐Casado et al. ; Fernández‐Mayoralas et al. ; Ruiz‐Adame et al.…”

The Impact of a Telenovela Intervention on Use of Home Health Care Services and Mexican American Older Adult and Caregiver Outcomes

“…Being able to help the elder is traditional and still foremost in Latino and MA caregivers’ motivation; therefore burden is sometimes claimed to not exist culturally. However, MA caregivers did significantly report burden in previous studies (Crist, Kim et al, 2007; del-Pino-Casado et al, 2014). Caregiving burden has two dimensions: caregivers’ objective assessment of elders’ impairment, conceptualized as assistance with elders’ activities of daily living (ADLs); and caregivers’ subjective perceptions of burden (how tiring, difficult, or upsetting the objective caregiving tasks are for them; Poulshock & Deimling, 1984).…”

“…Health can be improved by social support (del-Pino-Casado, Millán-Cobo, Palomino-Moral, & Frías-Osuna, 2014) which could be provided by HHCS. Five caregiver variables were conceptualized as being affected by use of HHCS (Figure 1).…”