Navaie-Waliser Maryam, Feldman Penny H, Gould David A, Levine Carol, Kuerbis Alexis N, Donelan Karen
Center for Home Care Policy and Research, Visiting Nurse Service of New York, 5 Penn Plaza, 11th Floor, New York, NY 10001, USA.
Am J Public Health. 2002 Mar;92(3):409-13. doi: 10.2105/ajph.92.3.409.
This study examined the characteristics, activities, and challenges of high-risk informal caregivers.
Telephone interviews were conducted with a nationally representative cross-section of 1002 informal caregivers. Vulnerable caregivers with poor health or a serious health condition were compared with nonvulnerable caregivers.
Thirty-six percent of caregivers were vulnerable. Compared with nonvulnerable caregivers, vulnerable caregivers were more likely to have difficulty providing care, to provide higher-intensity care, to report that their physical health had suffered since becoming a caregiver, to be aged 65 years or older, to be married, and to have less than 12 years of education.
Reliance on informal caregivers without considering the caregiver's ability to provide care can create a stressful and potentially unsafe environment for the caregiver and the care recipient.
本研究调查了高风险非正式照料者的特征、活动及挑战。
对1002名具有全国代表性的非正式照料者进行了电话访谈。将健康状况不佳或患有严重疾病的弱势照料者与非弱势照料者进行了比较。
36%的照料者为弱势照料者。与非弱势照料者相比，弱势照料者更有可能在提供照料方面存在困难，提供更高强度的照料，报告自成为照料者以来其身体健康受到影响，年龄在65岁及以上，已婚，且受教育年限少于12年。
在不考虑照料者提供照料能力的情况下依赖非正式照料者，可能会给照料者和受照料者营造一个压力大且可能不安全的环境。
