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Home Alone revisited: family caregivers providing complex care
Home Alone revisited: family caregivers providing complex care
- Collection:
- Health Policy and Services Research
- Author(s):
- Reinhard, Susan C., author
Young, Heather M., author
Levine, Carol, author
Kelly, Kathleen, author
Choula, Rita B., author
Accius, Jean, author - Contributor(s):
- AARP (Organization), issuing body.
Public Policy Institute (AARP (Organization)), issuing body. - Publication:
- Washington, DC : AARP, April 2019
- Language(s):
- English
- Format:
- Text
- Subject(s):
- Caregivers -- statistics & numerical data
Home Nursing
Multiple Chronic Conditions
Caregiver Burden
United States - Genre(s):
- Technical Report
- Abstract:
- The AARP Home Alone study in 2012 was the first national look at how families, neighbors, and friends are managing medical/nursing tasks--that is, the complex care associated with administering multiple medications, changing dressings, handling medical equipment, and providing many other kinds of help that were formerly offered by trained professionals. (See www.aarp.org/homealone.) Seven years later, this Home Alone Revisited study sought a deeper understanding of what family caregivers who perform medical/ nursing tasks experience. Employing an oversampling of multicultural groups, it took a closer look at specific difficult tasks, such as managing incontinence, pain, and special diets. It also offered greater attention to resources and outcomes as well as multicultural, gender, and generational experiences. A nationally representative, population-based, online survey of 2,089 family caregivers provided the basis for our analyses. An organizing framework, qualitative findings, and multivariate analyses provided further insights into the stories these family caregivers told us. Their voices led to our recommendations, found in these pages, for professionals, health care organizations, policy makers, and private-sector stakeholders.
- Copyright:
- Reproduced with permission of the copyright holder. Further use of the material is subject to CC BY-NC-ND license. (More information)
- Extent:
- 1 online resource (1 PDF file (iv, 56 pages))
- Illustrations:
- Illustrations
- NLM Unique ID:
- 9918434683406676 (See catalog record)
- Permanent Link:
- http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/9918434683406676