Chapter 13 Questions Flashcards
How do informal supports differ from formal supports
Informal supports are family caregivers, are unpaid, and has affection to senior
Formal supports are paid caregivers providing duties related to healthcare, social workers, and home care givers
What causes caregivers to feel stressed by their caregiving responsibilities?
Family caregivers face significant personal costs - financial and health-related in their caregiving role. Many have to juggle child care, work responsibilities, and care for older parents
How do various supporters differ in the kinds of support they offer?
Friends: High quality friendships in later life lead to high life satisfaction and well-being. They see friends out of choice
Siblings: The closeness rests, in part, on their shared experience of aging
How does technology serve as a support for older person?
Opens the opportunity for family members to get support and information
What is “caregiver burden”
Distress felt towards caregiving duties
How do men and women differ in their caregiving activities?
Men take a problem-solving approach to unpleasant tasks
Women take a more empathic approach to their work
What causes gerontoloists to worry about the future availability of social supports
Do to the low level of younger adults, the amount of caregivers is reducing
What is the most common form of elder mistreatment
Neglect
