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Research on rural caregiving
— a literature review | | Author(s) | R Turner Goins, S Melinda Spencer, Joshua C Byrd |
| Journal title | Journal of Applied Gerontology, vol 28, no 2, April 2009 |
| Pages | pp 139-170 |
| Source | http://jag.sagepub.com |
| Keywords | Informal care ; Rural areas ; Literature reviews ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | The goals of this article are to present a systematic review of rural caregiving research and provide suggestions for future research efforts. The review, conducted through a search of databases, was limited to original research articles published between 1990 and 2007. The articles focused on informal caregiving of dependent older adults in rural settings. Thirty-one articles met the inclusion criteria, with 11 being rural/urban comparative studies and 20 being rural only studies. The majority of the studies were quantitative and cross-sectional. Areas for improvement in future research include incorporating theory, defining key terms, using probability sampling, examining data longitudinally, including objective measures, recruiting more racially or ethnically diverse samples, and using a mixed-method approach. Currently, it is difficult to know the extent to which the rural environment influences informal caregiving. Additional research is needed to develop a more thorough understanding of caregiving in the rural context. (KJ/RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-090810202 A |
| Classmark | P6: RL: 64A: 7T |
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