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This study examines the effects of demographic, ethnic, personal and familial resources on well-being -- perceptions of physical and mental health -- of children caring for parents with Alzheimer's, comparing Jewish and Arab caregivers. Two groups of 64 Jewish and 50 Arab caregivers were selected from a cognitive diagnostic unit operating in a geriatric rehabilitative hospital in the north of Israel. The theoretical base was family systems and stress theories, using the ABCX model. The results show that ethnicity and parent-child relations were the strongest predictors of physical and especially mental health of these caregivers, followed by employment status of the caregivers and patient's functioning.
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Lowenstein, A. Caring for parents with Alzheimer's: Comparing perceptions of physical and mental health in the Jewish and Arab sectors in Israel. Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology 14, 65–76 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1006654621517
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