Social Support,Caregiver Burden,and Life Satisfaction in a Sample of Rural African American and White Caregivers of Older Persons With Dementia |
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| Authors: | Allan V Kaufman Jordan I Kosberg James D Leeper Maggie Tang |
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| Institution: | 1. School of Social Work , The University of Alabama , Tuscaloosa, Alabama, USA akaufman@sw.ua.edu;3. School of Social Work , The University of Alabama , Tuscaloosa, Alabama, USA;4. Department of Community and Rural Medicine, College of Community Health Sciences , The University of Alabama , Tuscaloosa, Alabama, USA;5. School of Behavioral and Social Sciences , The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey , Pomona, New Jersey, USA |
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| Abstract: | This article reports the findings of a study of African American and White dementia caregivers (n = 141) living in rural areas of Alabama that examined the relations between the participants' receipt of informal social support, and their levels of caregiver burden and life satisfaction. The sample, as a whole, reported high levels of social support with no reported differences in social support by race. Female caregivers reported higher mean scores on 3 of the 4 dimensions of social support than their male counterparts. Two of the 4 dimensions of social support accounted for 32% of the variance of the caregivers' reported level of life satisfaction. |
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| Keywords: | Caregivers dementia rural social support caregiver burden life satisfaction |
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