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Choudhary, Shriti
- Lifestyle of Elderly and Caregiving Stress of their Family Caregivers
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1 Department of Psychology, Ranchi University, Ranchi, IN
2 Department of Psychology, RLSY College, Ranchi, Jharkhand, IN
1 Department of Psychology, Ranchi University, Ranchi, IN
2 Department of Psychology, RLSY College, Ranchi, Jharkhand, IN
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Indian Journal of Health and Wellbeing, Vol 4, No 4 (2013), Pagination: 790-794Abstract
The present study attempts to assess the lifestyle of elders and the related stress of their caregivers due to caregiving. Lifestyle is a mixture of habits; conventional ways of doing things, reasoned actions and bundle of behaviors' that makes sense to the elders as well as their family caregivers. A purposive sample of 80 elderly and their one family caregivers (80) was selected from the Ranchi town, which was stratified on the basis of age, gender and socio- economic status (SES). Adopting a 2x2x2 factorial design data was collected using Lifestyle Questionnaire by Mathur, and Aurora, (2007) and Kingston Caregivers Stress Scale (KCSS) by Hopkings, and Kilik, (2012). It was found that lifestyle of the sample groups ranged from moderate to good category depending upon age, gender and SES. On the three dimensions of caregivers stress, the score was highest on stress related to financial issues, family issues and caregiving issues respectively. The male, young old and high SES elderly had a better lifestyle than the female, old old and low SES elders. Lifestyle of the elderly was found to be negatively correlated with caregiving stress indicating that better the lifestyle lesser would be the caregiving stress.Keywords
Caregiving, Stress, Lifestyle, Elderly.- General Wellbeing of the Elderly and Perceived Caregiving Burden of their Family Caregivers in Ranchi District
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1 Department of Psychology, RLSY College, Ranchi, IN
2 Department of Psychology, Ranchi University, Ranchi, IN
1 Department of Psychology, RLSY College, Ranchi, IN
2 Department of Psychology, Ranchi University, Ranchi, IN
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Indian Journal of Health and Wellbeing, Vol 4, No 1 (2013), Pagination: 21-25Abstract
The elderly in India accounted for 5.7% in 1990, estimated to reach 12.6% in 2020 with 13% of the total population. India will have the second largest greying population in the world by 2025.(Chadha&Easwasamoorthy, 1993). Majority of them 70% will be fully dependent on productive population with a need of economic support and responsible caregiving. The relationship of elders with their caregivers and the caregiving burden has emerged as a vital field of investigation affecting the psychology of everyday life. In this backdrop, the present study attempts to measure the general wellbeing of the elderly and perceived caregiving burden of their family caregivers. The study aims to assess the wellbeing of male and female elderly and see the impact of place of residence on their wellbeing. As the wellbeing of the elderly is directly related with the caregiving burden, the present study also attempts to measure the caregiving burden of their family caregivers. Data have been collected using PGI General Well Being Measure Verma, and Verma (2009) and Perceived Caregiving Burden Scale by Gupta (2007). Apurposive sample of 120 elderly, stratified randomly on the basis of gender (male/female) and place of residence (rural/urban) was taken for the study. It was found that rural female elderly scored more on Well Being Measure than their male counterpart, urban females also scored higher than the males. On total Wellbeing Measure the female sample had a better wellbeing than the male. As far as the caregiving burden is concerned, it was found negatively correlated with the wellbeing of the elders. Higher the wellbeing lower was the perceived caregiving burden. Urban caregivers perceived fewer burdens than the rural ones. In both settings, feeling of entrapment was highest perceived burden, followed by financial and sense of abandonment. The study recommends improvement in the wellbeing of the elderly for minimising the caregiving burden.Keywords
Wellbeing, General Wellbeing, Family Caregivers, Perceived Caregiving Burden.- Home Adjustment, Mental Efficiency and Depression among the Elderly of Ranchi Town
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1 Department of Psychology, RLSY College, Kokar, Ranchi, IN
2 Department of Psychology, Ranchi College, Ranchi, IN
3 Department of Psychology, Ranchi University, Ranchi, IN
1 Department of Psychology, RLSY College, Kokar, Ranchi, IN
2 Department of Psychology, Ranchi College, Ranchi, IN
3 Department of Psychology, Ranchi University, Ranchi, IN