Peer reviewedERIC Number: EJ490602
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1994
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Family Caregiving and Marital Satisfaction: Findings from a 1-Year Panel Study of Women Caring for Parents with Dementia.
Suitor, J. Jill; Pillemer, Karl
Journal of Marriage and the Family, v56 n3 p681-90 Aug 1994
Describes investigation examining effects of caring for elderly parent with dementia on marital satisfaction. Suggests changes in women's marital satisfaction were associated with variations in husbands' emotional support and hindrance of caregiving effort which were affected by perceptions that caregiving interfered with wives' performance of traditional family roles. (CRR)
Descriptors: Family Caregivers, Females, Marital Satisfaction, Marriage Counseling, Old Old Adults, Schizophrenia
Publication Type: Information Analyses; Journal Articles
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Language: English
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