Respite Care: A Community Needs Survey

Theis, Saundra L.; Deitrick, Emily P.

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“…Recently, Gochros (1996) observed that careful screening of potential caregivers, including helping them to anticipate the stresses inherent in PLA-caregiver relationships, may be a critical first step in helping to ensure competent caregiving. The AIDS Caregiver Scale (Ferrari, McCown, & Pantano, 1993) has been developed to assess the satisfaction and stress experienced by formal caregivers, and Theis, Cohen, Forrest, and Zelewsky (1997) reported on an attempt to adapt the Caregiver Survey (Theis & Deitrick, 1987), a 30-item gerontological measure, to AIDS-related concerns. To date, however, no tool has been developed specifically to assess the experience of informal caregivers (blood kin, spouses, partners, and lovers) for PLAs.…”

Section: Florida State Universitymentioning

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Assessing Willingness to Care for Persons With AIDS: Validation of a New Measure

Abell

2001

Research on Social Work Practice

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Objective: This article describes the development and validation of the Willingness to Care Scale, a multifactorial measure assessing the experiences of informal caregivers for persons living with AIDS (PLAs). Willingness to care describes one’s attitude toward providing emotional, instrumental, and nursing support. Method: Interviews were conducted with 155 caregivers of PLAs on caregiving and psychosocial concerns. Results: Strong evidence was found for factorial and content validity and reliability. Conclusion: The tool may be used by social workers to assess the potential for and monitor the functioning of task-focused caregiving relationships. Issues in sampling for HIV/AIDS research are discussed.

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Section: Florida State Universitymentioning

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Assessing Willingness to Care for Persons With AIDS: Validation of a New Measure

Abell

2001

Research on Social Work Practice

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“…Overwhelmingly, respite care, including residential respite care, has been described as useful and necessary for family caregivers (Anderson, 1987;Bader, 1985;Ellis and Wilson, 1983;Gaynor, 1989;Graycar and Kinnear, 1982;Lawton et al, 1989Lawton et al, , 1991Scharlach and Frenzel, 1986;Theis and Deitrick, 1987;Tyler, 1987). However, caregivers often do not use available residential services or prefer other forms of respite.…”

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Prescribing residential respite care for dementia—effects, side‐effects, indications and dosage

Brodaty

Gresham

1992

Int J Geriat Psychiatry

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SUMMARYRecent momentum for increased provision of residential respite services for people with dementia is not supported by empirical data. Yet the literature is replete with anecdotal reports indicating the efficacy of residential respite. This discrepancy may have resulted from methodological flaws in the research, lack of awareness by consumers and health professionals and great diversity in the reasons for, and among the recipients of, respite. The prescription of respite care will need to be more specific and rigorous-matching the correct dose of respite care to the needs of recipients and caregivers-for future research to demonstrate its efficacy.

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“…In assessing needs, most surveys have looked at clients of service agencies, but these data yield little information on the need for respite care in the community generally (Theis & Dietrick 1987). Where community samples have been studied.…”

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Care‐receivers' and Care‐givers' Experience and Perceptions of Respite Care: Implications for Service Provision

Clarke

Finucane

1995

Australian Journal on Ageing

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A random sample of elderly people living in a defined geographic area who were receiving care, together with those providing care, were interviewed about their need for, and their experience of; respite care For comparative purposes, a sample of elderly clients of sewice providers was also interviewed A total of 67 care-receivers and 71 care-givers were intewiewed Less than halfthe respondents reported having had a respite break. Care-givers reported more benefitfrom respite than care-receivers, and were less enthusiastic about the return to normal care arrangements. Respondents idenwed a number of problems with, and barriers to, respite care We conclude that alternatives to residenrial respite care should befurther explored I N6 .-liisrruliari Joirnial oii Ageitig, Vol. 13, No. J

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Respite Care: A Community Needs Survey

Cited by 8 publications

References 7 publications

Assessing Willingness to Care for Persons With AIDS: Validation of a New Measure

Assessing Willingness to Care for Persons With AIDS: Validation of a New Measure

Prescribing residential respite care for dementia—effects, side‐effects, indications and dosage

Care‐receivers' and Care‐givers' Experience and Perceptions of Respite Care: Implications for Service Provision

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