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Profiles in caregiving : the unexpected career /

Given medical advances and greater understanding of healthful living habits, people are living longer lives. Proportionally speaking, a greater percentage of the population is elderly. Despite medical advances, there is still no cure for dementia, and as elderly individuals succumb to Alzheimer'...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Aneshensel, Carol S.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: San Diego : Academic Press, ©1995.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Front Cover; Profiles in Caregiving: The Unexpected Career; Copyright Page; Contents; Preface; Chapter 1. Setting the Stage; Chapter 2. Caregiving Careers and Stress Processes; Chapter 3. An Empirical Inquiry into Caregiving; Chapter 4. The Organization of Stressors in the Lives of Caregivers; Chapter 5. The Natural History of Care-Related Stress; Chapter 6. Stress Proliferation; Chapter 7. The Containment of Care-Related Stressors; Chapter 8. The Transition to Institutional Care; Chapter 9. Adaptation Following Institutionalization; Chapter 10. The Timing and Settings of Patient Death.