Family Caregiving Roles
Words: 340 Pages: 1 4891Caregiving competes with leisure time, which is usually spent with family members and helps maintain healthy family relationships. The time for leisure, however, is drastically shortened when caregiving lasts for hours or must be combined with a regular workday. Caring for co-residing elderly, in particular, not only influences a family’s daily life but decreases the well-being of both caregivers and their family members (Amirkhanyan & Wolf, 2006). Yet the effect of caregiving on the entire family has received only marginal […]