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TECHNOLOGY-BASED INTERVENTIONS TO IMPROVE CAREGIVER WELL-BEING

Informal or unpaid care is the most common form of long-term care. Despite clear benefits for the care recipient, caregiving can have unintended physical and emotional consequences for caregivers. Traditional caregiver interventions are limited in scope, as they often focus on the emotional conseque...

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Autores principales: Fairchild, Kaci, Kamil-Rosenberg, Shirit, Taylor, Heather, Louras, Peter, Scanlon, Blake, Myers, Jonathon, Yesavage, Jerome
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6841361/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igz038.2073
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author Fairchild, Kaci
Kamil-Rosenberg, Shirit
Taylor, Heather
Louras, Peter
Scanlon, Blake
Myers, Jonathon
Yesavage, Jerome
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description Informal or unpaid care is the most common form of long-term care. Despite clear benefits for the care recipient, caregiving can have unintended physical and emotional consequences for caregivers. Traditional caregiver interventions are limited in scope, as they often focus on the emotional consequences of caregiving; however, the physiological effects of caregiving are equally deleterious to caregiver health. Exercise improves physical health, yet the demands of caregiving can limit participation in physical activity. Traditional gym-based interventions may not be feasible for many caregivers. Advances in technology present an opportunity to address these limitations, specifically in the areas of accessibility and acceptability. The Combined Online Assistance for Caregiver Health (COACH) program combines evidence-based skills training with physical exercise in a tablet-based intervention. Preliminary evidence for the physical and psychological benefits are promising; however, differential attrition rates are informative as to the acceptability of technology-based interventions among some caregivers.
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spelling pubmed-68413612019-11-15 TECHNOLOGY-BASED INTERVENTIONS TO IMPROVE CAREGIVER WELL-BEING Fairchild, Kaci Kamil-Rosenberg, Shirit Taylor, Heather Louras, Peter Scanlon, Blake Myers, Jonathon Yesavage, Jerome Innov Aging Session 2535 (Symposium) Informal or unpaid care is the most common form of long-term care. Despite clear benefits for the care recipient, caregiving can have unintended physical and emotional consequences for caregivers. Traditional caregiver interventions are limited in scope, as they often focus on the emotional consequences of caregiving; however, the physiological effects of caregiving are equally deleterious to caregiver health. Exercise improves physical health, yet the demands of caregiving can limit participation in physical activity. Traditional gym-based interventions may not be feasible for many caregivers. Advances in technology present an opportunity to address these limitations, specifically in the areas of accessibility and acceptability. The Combined Online Assistance for Caregiver Health (COACH) program combines evidence-based skills training with physical exercise in a tablet-based intervention. Preliminary evidence for the physical and psychological benefits are promising; however, differential attrition rates are informative as to the acceptability of technology-based interventions among some caregivers. Oxford University Press 2019-11-08 /pmc/articles/PMC6841361/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igz038.2073 Text en © The Author(s) 2019. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of The Gerontological Society of America. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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