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Leroux, Charles – 1986
This guide on Alzheimer's disease is for those who care for Alzheimer's patients, as well as those who want to learn more about the disease. It answers these questions: (1) what is Alzheimer's? (2) how does the disease progress and how long does it last? (3) how do families cope? and (4) who can provide assistance and information? The guide also…
Descriptors: Alzheimers Disease, Caregivers, Family Caregivers, Financial Support
Peer reviewedLitz, Brett T.; And Others – Gerontologist, 1990
Presents case study which highlights attendant cognitive changes that occur in Alzheimer's patient, presenting caregiver with challenges to couple's sexual functioning. Describes man who reported erectile dysfunction directly stemming from stressful changes that had occurred in his relationship to his wife who had Alzheimer's disease. General…
Descriptors: Alzheimers Disease, Case Studies, Family Caregivers, Males
Peer reviewedGwyther, Lisa P. – Gerontologist, 1990
Describes an intermittent, focused social work intervention to help overcome personal and intrapsychic barriers to using available help for wives of Alzheimer's patients. Discusses therapeutic goals, common themes, and implications for practice with caregiving wives with specific attention to supporting the wife in her wish to "responsibly…
Descriptors: Alzheimers Disease, Counseling Techniques, Family Caregivers, Marital Satisfaction
Peer reviewedHenderson, J. Neil; And Others – Gerontologist, 1993
Alzheimer's disease caregiver support groups were developed simultaneously in two cities with existing Alzheimer's disease support groups but without ethnic minority use. "Ethic competence" concept, featuring ethnographic methods, was applied in African-American and Hispanic communities in both sites. In 2 years, 114 ethnic minority primary…
Descriptors: Alzheimers Disease, Blacks, Family Caregivers, Hispanic Americans
Peer reviewedGanzer, Carol; England, Suzanne E. – Health & Social Work, 1994
Reviews existing studies of use of formal care by families of Alzheimer's sufferers with special attention to findings relevant to access, particularly perceptions of appropriateness and acceptability or consistency with other needs and values. Applied conceptual model represented by these findings to narrative that serves as proxy for real case.…
Descriptors: Alzheimers Disease, Family Caregivers, Human Services, Models
Colman, Vanda; And Others – 1987
This "gray paper" asserts that the physical, emotional, and financial needs of unpaid caregivers--usually women--have been largely ignored in our national health care policy regarding care for the severely disabled elderly. It discusses the problem of the caregiving role for wives of severely incapacitated husbands, noting that the present health…
Descriptors: Adult Day Care, Alzheimers Disease, Family Caregivers, Federal Programs
