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The subjective well-being of people caring for a family member with a severe disability at home: a review
- Author:
- CUMMINS Robert A.
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Intellectual and Developmental Disability, 26(1), March 2001, pp.83-100.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
This review concerns the life quality of people caring for a relative with a severe disability within their family. It involves the balance between the advantages such care brings to the care recipient and the costs borne by the family. A brief history indicates that the forces that encourages family care are minimally concerned with family welfare. Moreover, an analysis of both qualitative and quantitative data indicates that primary caregivers are at considerable risk of high stress, clinical depression, and abnormally low subjective quality of life. It is concluded that increased public expenditure directed to the care of people with severe disability is urgently required.
Parental stress attributed to family members with and without disability: a longitudinal
- Authors:
- BAXTER Christine, CUMMINS Robert A., YIOLITIS Lewi
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Intellectual and Developmental Disability, 25(2), June 2000, pp.105-118.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
This study investigates stress attributed by parents to their family member with intellectual disability over a period of seven years in relation to specific foci of parental worry, and also in relation to stress attributed to the youngest sibling without a disability. The study concludes that the stress attributed to any specific child may be an indicator of more general family stress.