Family caregiving across the lifespan / [edited by] Eva Kahana, David E. Biegel, May L. Wykle.

"Published in cooperation with the Center for Practice Innovations, Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences, Case Western Reserve University."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Developmental challenges and family caregiving : bridging concepts and research / Eva Kahana [and others] -- Someone to watch over me : family responsibilities and their realization across family lives / Joan Aldous -- Altruism through the life course / Elizabeth Midlarsky -- Optimal use of formal and informal systems over the life course / Eugene Litwak, Dorothy Jones Jessop, and Heather J. Moulton -- Caregiving and children / Joan M. Patterson and Barbara J. Leonard -- Caregivers of persons living with AIDS / Patricia Flatley Brennan and Shirley M. Moore -- Predictors of caregiver burden among.

Caregiving issues after a heart attack : perspectives on elderly patients and their families / Rosalie F. Young and Eva Kahana -- Care at home : family caregivers and home care workers / Lucy Rose Fischer and Nancy N. Eustis -- The caregiver as the hidden patient : challenges for medical practice / Jack H. Medalie -- Caregiving issues in families of children with chronic medical conditions / Anne E. Kazak and Dimitri A. Christakis -- Relationships between the frail elderly's informal and formal helpers / Linda S. Noelker and David M. Bass.

"Published in cooperation with the Center for Practice Innovations, Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences, Case Western Reserve University."

Print version record.

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.

English.

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