Factors influencing caregivers' burden among family caregivers and institutionalization of in-home elderly people cared for by family caregivers

Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 474-483

  Kurasawa, Shigeki ^a,b   Yoshimasu, Kouichi ^b   Washio, Masakazu ^c,d   Fukumoto, Jin ^b   Takemura, Shigeki ^b   Yokoi, Katsushi ^b,e   Arai, Yumiko ^d   Miyashita, Kazuhisa ^b  

^a KANSAI UNIVERSITY OF WELFARE SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b WAKAYAMA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c ST MARY S COLLEGE   (Japan)

^d NATIONAL CENTER FOR GERIATRICS AND GERONTOLOGY   (Japan)

^e HIMEJI DOKKYO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Caregiver; Caregiver burden; Caregiving; Elderly; Institutionalization

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; CAREGIVER; DEMENTIA; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; GERIATRIC CARE; HEALTH SERVICE; HOME CARE; HUMAN; INSTITUTIONALIZATION; JAPAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SCORING SYSTEM;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CAREGIVERS; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES FOR THE AGED; HOME CARE SERVICES; HUMANS; INSTITUTIONALIZATION; JAPAN; LONG-TERM CARE; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 84869501808     PISSN: 1342078X     EISSN: 13474715     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12199-012-0276-8     Document Type: Article

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