Informal Care to the Impaired Elderly: Report of the National Long Term Care Demonstration Survey of Informal Caregivers

摘要

The study uses baseline data on informal caregivers to explore several issues central to informal caregiving, including the composition of the informal care network, the types and level of care provided by that network, financial assistance provided by informal caregivers, and their well-being. The caregivers were in most cases the wives, daughters or daughters-in-law of the elderly recipients of care. In general, the more the care was provided under stressful circumstances, the greater was the perceived burden and the lower the rating given by primary caregivers to their quality of life.