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Caregiving Styles: A Cognitive And Behavioral Typology Associated With Dementia Family Caregiving, Mary Corcoran
Caregiving Styles: A Cognitive And Behavioral Typology Associated With Dementia Family Caregiving, Mary Corcoran
Mary A Corcoran
Purpose: An increasing number of elderly individuals
are diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease and
related disorders (ADRD), many of whom receive
daily caregiving from spouse or adult child. Caregiving
is a “cultural activity,” and as such it is strongly
influenced by sociocultural beliefs about caregiving
and how it should be enacted. Understanding this
thinking–action process has important implications
for future research and service. Reasoned action theory
provides empirical evidence that attitudes and
beliefs, as they are influenced by the social environment,
predict intentions to act. In turn, behavioral
intentions can reliably predict behaviors. This
grounded theory study describes a typology of …