HLTHAGE 1BB3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Dementia, Long-Term Care, Family Caregivers
26 Jan 2015
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Social support: the help and assistance people give to one another. Formal support: paid support from professional caregivers such as doctors, nurses, social workers, and homecare workers. Informal support: unpaid support from family members, friends, neighbors, and others in the community. Task specificity model: a model of social support that contends different groups (of family, friends, neighbors) have different abilities and offer different types of support, each playing a specific role. Hierarchical compensatory model: a model of social support that contends people choose their supports first from their inner family circle and then move outward to get support from less intimate people as they need more help. Convoy model of support: a model that described social support as a network of close family and friends who travel together throughout life, exchanging social support and assistance. Informal caregivers: unpaid care providers with a tie of kinship or affection toward the care receiver.
