Basic Aspects of Aging Section 5

The act of assisting people with personal care, household chores, transportation, and other tasks associated with daily living; provided primarily by families without compensation or direct care workers

Reality demands that caregivers face (income loss, job disruption, poor health, etc)

The caregiver's experience of caregiver burden; differential appraisals of stress

Typically middle-aged daughters or daughter-in-laws; so named because of competing responsibilites or parental and child care

Federal legislation passed in 1993 that provides job protection to workers requiring short-term leaves from their jobs for the care of a dependent parent, seriously ill newborn, or adopted child

Passed in 2000, requires state and area agencies on aging to provide services to support family caregivers

Maltreatment of older adult, including physical, sexual, and psychological abuse, and financial exploitation and neglect

Deprivation of care necessary to maintain elders' health by those trusted to provide the care ot the elder themselves

Short-term relief provided for caregivers; may be provided in the home or out of the home

Five stages that may be experienced by the dying person, as defined by Kubler-Ross: 1. denial and isolation 2. anger and resentment 3. bargaining and attempt to postpone 4. depression and sense of loss 5. acceptance

A process by which a person voluntarily makes decision equivalent to choosing to die (not eating, refusing help, etc)

Affirms dying person's right to dignity, privacy, informed participation, and competent care

Treatment designed to relieve pain provided to persons of all ages with a terminal illness

A program of care for dying persons that gives emphasis to the personal dignity of the dying person, reducing pain and sources of anxiety and family reconciliation when needed

Viewed as a more sociall acceptable term than euthanasia because it speeds up the inevitable