The desire of being self-sufficient in the old-patient receiving care often clashes with the safety concern of caregiver. In a recent study, published in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society , the researchers interviewed old-age care recipients and their caregivers in order to better understand their relationship. The study included individuals with age 65 or more having two or more health conditions. The results of the study revealed two caregiving typologies, supportive caregiving relationships and conflicted caregiving relationships.
The key characteristics of the supportive relationship were: the patient-caregiver agreement about caregiver level of involvement. agreement about one another's competency to perform disease‐related tasks. mutual understanding. collaborative decision‐making and disease management, and use of family and formal caregiving The key…
