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- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Copyright
- © 1989 The Gerontological Society of America
- ISSN
- 0016-9013
- eISSN
- 1758-5341
- DOI
- 10.1093/geront/29.4.472
- Publisher site
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Abstract
Abstract An eight-week professionally guided caregiver support group program was found to produce statistically significant reductions in anxiety, depression, and sense of burden among family caregivers to frail elderly persons living in the community. Effects were weaker four months after the intervention ended than immediately after, but reductions in anxiety and depression were still evident. Family caregivers, Support group, Stress This content is only available as a PDF. Author notes 1 Research supported by grant #90-AM-0093 from the Administration on Aging, Department of Health and Human Services, and by the All-University Gerontology Center at Syracuse University. Conclusions are the authors' own and do not necessarily reflect the views of the department or the center. We particularly wish to express our gratitude to the project's professional and administrative staff: Carmen Wilson, RN, BSN; William Bemis, MSW; Celina Samoza, BS; and Mildred Ethier. From their skills and dedication to serving family caregivers under stress arose the outcomes reported here. © 1989 The Gerontological Society of America
Journal
The Gerontologist – Oxford University Press
Published: Aug 1, 1989