“Self-Organizing Care” – caring for a person with Alzheimer’s in the biography of a family carer Cover Image

„Samoorganizowanie troski” – opieka nad osobą z chorobą alzheimera w biografii opiekuna rodzinnego
“Self-Organizing Care” – caring for a person with Alzheimer’s in the biography of a family carer

Author(s): Beata Lucyna Szluz
Subject(s): Family and social welfare, Demography and human biology, Gerontology
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego
Keywords: sociology of social problems; caring; family carer; Alzheimer’s disease; biographical method;

Summary/Abstract: Caring for a person with Alzheimer’s disease is not only exhausting physically and emotionally, but can also have high financial costs. This problem becomes of a special importance in the presence of an ageing process of individual and society and growing number of people with Alzheimer’s disease. The paper aims to present difficulties encountered by family caregivers of people with Alzheimer’s disease. Caring for person with AD run the caregivers the high risk of decreased quality of life, it is especially true with regard to family caregivers who are emotionally related with the patient.

  • Issue Year: 22/2017
  • Issue No: 3
  • Page Range: 225-236
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: Polish