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Alzheimer's Disease Caregiver Burden: Does Resilience Matter?, Cathy B Scott
Alzheimer's Disease Caregiver Burden: Does Resilience Matter?, Cathy B Scott
Doctoral Dissertations
Caring for an individual with Alzheimer’s disease is especially challenging and impacts every aspect of the lives of the informal caregivers. Informal caregiving is defined as unpaid care provided by family or friends to people with a chronic illness or disability (Young & Newman, 2002). Caregiver burden involves the physical, psychological, social and emotional problems experienced by a caregiver of an impaired loved one (Gwyther & George, 2006). Alzheimer’s disease caregivers report more depression than their caregiving and non-caregiving peers, experience increased physical decline, and often experience financial challenges. Evidence suggests Alzheimer’s disease caregiver burden is a result of both …
Risk And Protective Factors Associated With Academic Achievement Among Ghanaian Youth, Ziblim Abukari
Risk And Protective Factors Associated With Academic Achievement Among Ghanaian Youth, Ziblim Abukari
Electronic Theses and Dissertations
Young people in Ghana who grow up in poverty and to families with little or no education endure limited early learning opportunities, underfunded educational systems, and more health and mental health problems compared to their peers from more privileged backgrounds. A significant body of literature addressing the relationship among risk, protection, resilience and academic achievement is based on youth populations in North America and Western Europe. Relatively little is known about the applicability of ecological and risk and resilience frameworks in non-Western countries. Consequently, educational outcomes of young people in Ghana are often characterized by similarities in low achievement, lack …