Family caregivers on the job
Subtitle: moving beyond ADLs and IADLs
By: Carol Levine, editor.
Contributors: Levine, Carol.; United Hospital Fund of New York.
Publisher: United Hospital Fund of New York
Published: 2004
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 178
Subjects: Caregivers; Caregivers -- standards; Home Nursing -- methods; Activities of Daily Living; Outcome and Process Assessment (Health Care) -- methods
Description: More than 27 million Americans care for a seriously ill or aging relative at home. Yet neither health care professionals nor policymakers have the tools necessary to describe the tasks family caregivers perform, the first step toward developing supportive services and policies. Instead, they have relied on Activities of Daily Living (ADLs) and Instrumental Activities of Daily Living (IADLs), measures developed to assess care recipients' functional deficits, to assess the realities of the lives of their care providers. The authors of this book seek to redress the gap.--Cover. p. 4.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The ADL-IADL measures from the caregiver's perspective / Carol Levine and Andrea Hart; title: The work of caregiving: what do ADLs and IADLs tell us? / Susan C. Reinhard; title: Recognizing the work of family and informal caregivers: the case for caregiver assessment / Lynn Friss Feinberg; title: Beyond ADL-IADL: recognizing the full scope of family caregiving / Steven M. Albert; title: You can't get there from here: dimensions of caregiving and dementias of policymaking / Bruce C. Vladeck; title: Recommendations for Caregiver Job Description Project.