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  title info:
    title: Caregiver burden in the care of the elderly
  name:
    name part: Suriawati Ghazali
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author
  name:
    name part: Universiti Malaya
    name part: Fakulti Sains Kejururawatan
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: my
    date issued: 2010
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xiii, 201 leaves : illustrations ; 31 cm.
  abstract: Background of the study: As Malaysian's elderly populations grows, this will increase the number of elderly people with health problems that prevent them for caring for themselves and forcing them to dependence on others. This means more caregivers are needed by older adult to assist them in their ADLs. AS nonprofessional, most family caregivers have very little training in providing caregiving, but they frequently perform many tasks once accomplished by a registered nurse with specialized education. Objectives of the study: The objective of this study was to determine the level of dependence of the elderly and the burden of caregiver who care of the elderly with chronic illness in a Tertiary Referral Centre. This study aims to identify the level of burden and types of burden perceived by the caregivers who care of the elderly with chronic illness. Materials and Methods: A descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted among 200 caregivers who care of the elderly person attending the outpatient medical clinic in tertiary Referral Centre. The samples were recruited by using the convenience sampling method. The questionnaire used consists of four components; demographic questionnaire, caregiver burden inventory scale, and the modified Barthel's Activity of Daily Living Scale. All participants was signed a consent form, giving the researcher permission to use the data that was provided. SOSS windows version 16, non - parametric test and inferential data analysis were used to analyse data to address research objectives of the study. Findings: The finding shows that 66.5% of elderly were dependent in at least one activity of daily livings. The most common type of functional dependence among the elderly were climbing stairs, walking and transferring. The level of burden of the caregiver was at low level which 81% was reported low level of burden while remaining 19% was reported high level of burden. As regard of type of burden, time-dependence burden was reported higher …
  table of contents: 1. Introduction -- 2. Review of literature -- 3. Research methodology -- 4. Analysis and interpretation of data -- 5. Discussion and conclusion
  note: Suriawati Ghazali
  note: Tesis (Ijazah Sarjana Sains Kejururawatan) - Universiti Malaya, 2010
  note: Includes bibliographical references (leaves 160-174)
  subject:
    topic: Caregivers
  subject:
    topic: Dissertation, Academic
    geographic: Malaysia
  subject:
    topic: Older caregivers
  classification: BL625.9.C35 .S87 2010
  classification: WY 115 S961c 2010
  record info:
    record content source: UniSZA
    record creation date: 131017
    record change date: 20210208093000.0
    record identifier: 0000085867