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30 Cards in this Set
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Animal-assisted therapy
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Therapy that involves introducing pets, such as dogs, cats, rabbits or birds into LTC or other residential care settings with the objective of improving the health, behaviour and well-being of the residents
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Boomerang Children
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Adult children who return to their parent's home after having moved out at an earlier point in time
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Caregiver burden
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Problems and stress due to caregiving
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Caregiver's wage or allowance
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Financial payment to family caregivers to assist them in their caregiver role
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Confidant
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Someone in whom one confides
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Convoy model of support
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A model that describes social support as a network of close family and friends who travel together throughout life, exchanging social support and assistance
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Developmental stake or generational stake
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The idea that, compared with their children, older people have a greater investment in the relationship with children
(therefore older adults may de-emphasize the amount of support they receive so as not to see themselves as a burden on their children) |
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Eldercare programs
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Workplace programs that can help family caregivers cope with care for an adult family member
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Family counselling
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Counselling with a social worker or psychotherapist that includes parents, children, and siblings
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Fictive kin
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The close relationships that an older person develops with nonrelatives such as friends, neighbours, and home care workers
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Filial piety
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A culture value or belief, highly valued in Asian cultures, that younger generations should take care of older family members
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Formal support
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Paid support from professional caregivers such as doctors, nurses, social workers, and home care workers
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Functional specificity of relationship model
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A model of social support that contends a family or friendship tie may provide one type of support or a broad range of support, depending on the particular relationship between the caregiver and the care receiver
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GRAND (Grandparents Requesting Access and Dignity)
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A group that helps grandparents who cannot get access to their grandchildren
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Hierarchical compensatory model
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A model of social support that contends people choose their supports first from their inner family circle and then move outward to get support from less-intimate people as they need more help
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Informal caregivers
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Unpaid care providers with a tie of kinship or affection toward the care receiver
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Informal support
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Unpaid support from family members, friends, neighbours, and others in the community
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Kin keeper
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The person in a family who keeps family members in touch with one another. Women generally occupy this role
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LAT (living apart together) couples
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Couples that have a committed relationship but maintain separate households
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Long-distance caregivers
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Caregivers who live at a significant distance from the care recipient
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Primary potential support groups
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Family and close friends who give help to the older person and who can expect help from the older person
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Quasi-widowhood
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Experiencing feelings of grief, depression, and loss after a spouse is placed in a nursing home
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Respite services
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services ranging from friendly visitors who stay with the care receiver for a few hours, to full-day adult day care, to longer institutional respite to give caregivers time off
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Sandwich generation
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People in their mid-life who have at least one living parent and at least one child living in the household
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Second language of sex
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The "language of sex" that develops in a long-term intimate relationship and focuses on responsiveness, caring and affection
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Semiformal structures
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Forms of organized support, such as car pools, groups of people in the same building who shop together, friendly visitors, or "daily hello" phone callers, that fall between the informal and formal support structures
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Skip-generation households
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Grandparents living with grandchildren without the presence of the middle (parent) generation
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Social support
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The help and assistance people give to one another
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Support groups
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Groups that give caregivers information about how to cope with caregiving demands and provide emotional support
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Task specificity model
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A model of social support that contends different groups (of family, friends, neighbours) have different abilities and offer different types of support, each playing a specific role
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