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Development and Overview
Louis D. Burgio and Matthew J. Wynn
in The REACH OUT Caregiver Support Program: A Skills Training Program for Caregivers of Persons with Dementia, Clinician Guide
This chapter describes the basic tenets of the REACH OUT protocol and how they came to be. It begins with an overview of the development of the REACH OUT protocol and details the program’s ...
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Family Caregivers of Stroke Survivors
Julia M. P. Poritz, Timothy R. Elliott, and Klaus Pfeiffer
in The Spectrum of Family Caregiving for Adults and Elders with Chronic Illness
Stroke is one of the leading causes of disability in the United States and many stroke survivors subsequently experience impairments necessitating daily care from family members. Family ...
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Caring for Individuals with Chronic Musculoskeletal Pain
Catherine Riffin, Cary Reid, and Karl Pillemer
in The Spectrum of Family Caregiving for Adults and Elders with Chronic Illness
Chronic musculoskeletal pain (CMP) is a widespread and debilitating illness. The damaging consequences of CMP often extend beyond the affected individual to interpersonal and family ...
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Heart Failure and Debilitating Cardiovascular Problems
Susan J. Pressler, Miyeon Jung, and James Friedman
in The Spectrum of Family Caregiving for Adults and Elders with Chronic Illness
Cardiovascular syndromes and diseases are prevalent and debilitating. One of the most severe conditions, chronic heart failure (HF), has received a great deal of attention because the ...
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The REACH OUT Caregiver Support Program: A Skills Training Program for Caregivers of Persons with Dementia, Clinician Guide
Louis D. Burgio and Matthew J. Wynn
Our nation increasingly relies on family members or friends (i.e., informal caregivers) for needed care and support as we age. Family caregivers typically assume their caregiving role ...
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The Spectrum of Family Caregiving for Adults and Elders with Chronic Illness
Louis D. Burgio, Joseph E. Gaugler, and Michelle M. Hilgeman (eds)
The goal of this edited volume is to review the research on the caregiving role and the interventions developed to assist family caregivers of older adults and elders with different chronic ...
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Caregiving for Family Members with Chronic Illness
Louis D. Burgio and Joseph E. Gaugler
in The Spectrum of Family Caregiving for Adults and Elders with Chronic Illness
This introductory chapter describes the heterogeneous nature of the caregiving experience, attempts to capture the complexity of the caregiving context using conceptual models, and ...
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Caregiver family therapy
Sara H. Qualls
in Handbook of Emotional Disorders in Later Life: Assessment and Treatment
This chapter describes an approach to family intervention that considers the family system as the context for care decisions. The intervention model joins a small number of interventions ...
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What We Know (And Don’t Know) About the Bereavement Experiences of Same-Sex Spouses
Rachel Donnelly, Corinne Reczek, and Debra Umberson
in LGBTQ Divorce and Relationship Dissolution: Psychological and Legal Perspectives and Implications for Practice
The death of a spouse is an involuntary form of relationship dissolution with deleterious health consequences for the surviving partner. Yet, to date, researchers have not examined ...
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Caregiving for the Chronically Ill: State of the Science and Future Directions
Louis D. Burgio and Joseph E. Gaugler
in The Spectrum of Family Caregiving for Adults and Elders with Chronic Illness
Chronic illnesses associated with the greatest caregiving burdens (cancer and dementia) have the most sophisticated research literature at this time. However, few comparative studies exist. ...
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Using Interpersonal Psychotherapy with Older Individuals
Mark D Miller and Charles F Reynolds III
in Casebook of Interpersonal Psychotherapy
Chapter 14 discusses using IPT with older individuals, and covers how IPT can help with role transitions, relocation, increasing medical burden, awareness of cognitive decline, caregiving ...
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Interpersonal Psychotherapy in Developing Countries
Helena Verdeli, Charles D.R Baily, Christine Nanyondo, Jessica A Keith, and Ori Elis
in Casebook of Interpersonal Psychotherapy
Chapter 18 discusses IPT in developing countries, and covers the effectiveness of group IPT modified for the cultural context of southwestern Uganda (IPT-GU), compared to a ...
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Mindful Caregiving and Support
Nirbhay N. Singh, Giulio E. Lancioni, Alan S. W. Winton, Judy Singh, Ashvind N. Adkins Singh, and Angela D. Adkins Singh
in Children and Youth with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD): Recent Advances and Innovations in Assessment, Education, and Intervention
Mindfulness is the conscious performance of all activities from an attitude of pure observation—a moment-by-moment nonjudgmental awareness of every aspect of life itself. Mindfulness-based ...
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Caregiving for Individuals with Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Disorders
Joseph E. Gaugler and Louis D. Burgio
in The Spectrum of Family Caregiving for Adults and Elders with Chronic Illness
The challenges of providing care for individuals with Alzheimer’s disease or a related disorders (ADRD) are substantial. This chapter describes the public health impact, characteristics of ...
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HIV/AIDS Caregiving
Helen M. Land and Brooklyn Levine
in The Spectrum of Family Caregiving for Adults and Elders with Chronic Illness
This chapter addresses the highly diverse characteristics and needs of HIV/AIDS caregivers. The historical background of HIV/AIDS caregiving is set within the context in which AIDS was ...
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