O'Neill G, Ross M M
Health Care Women Int. 1991 Jan-Mar;12(1):111-21. doi: 10.1080/07399339109515931.
Research on family caregiving demonstrates clearly the predominance of women, particularly wives and adult daughters, among the care providers to elderly persons who are frail and chronically ill. It seems that women go to great lengths to care for impaired and elderly relatives, making personal sacrifices, often at great cost to their own health and well-being. Burden of care is a concept emerging in the literature that describes the physical, emotional, social, and financial problems that can be experienced by family caregivers. This concept may be useful to heighten understanding of the family caregiving experience and as such may provide a framework for nursing practice and research. We seek to increase nurses' awareness, through an examination of the burden-of-care literature, of the caregiving experience of women who minister to elderly parents and husbands. We also make a plea for the involvement of nurses with both givers and receivers of care and offer an approach to assessment that incorporates both the meaning and the process of caregiving.
对家庭护理的研究清楚地表明，在照顾体弱多病的老年人的护理人员中，女性，尤其是妻子和成年女儿占主导地位。似乎女性竭尽全力照顾受损的老年亲属，做出个人牺牲，这往往对她们自己的健康和幸福造成巨大代价。护理负担是文献中出现的一个概念，描述了家庭护理人员可能经历的身体、情感、社会和经济问题。这个概念可能有助于加深对家庭护理经历的理解，因此可能为护理实践和研究提供一个框架。我们试图通过审视护理负担文献，提高护士对照顾年迈父母和丈夫的女性护理经历的认识。我们还呼吁护士参与到护理提供者和接受者双方中，并提供一种将护理的意义和过程都纳入其中的评估方法。
