Family Caregiving Across the Lifespan

Download or read book Family Caregiving Across the Lifespan written by Center for Practice Innovations and published by SAGE. This book was released on 1994-03-16 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining caregiving issues from a multigenerational, family life cycle perspective, this volume deals with the broad spectrum of chronic illnesses that necessitate family caregiving throughout the lifespan and discusses responses to these challenges by both caregiving families and caregiving systems. Part One addresses the caregiving paradigm and the relationship of family caregiving research to family life studies. Part Two examines conceptual aspects of caregiving, ranging from the expansion of the caregiving paradigm, caregiving processes and tasks, to the positive aspects of caregiving. Part Three emphasizes how family caregivers are affected by the connection (or lack of it) to macro-level systems.