‘Stress management research: Feline therapy lab’
Caregiving can often be rewarding, but it can also be challenging. There is a broad consensus in the academia on the potentially harmful consequences of a stressful situation such as caring for an elderly dependent person.
Currently, there is a large body of empirical work published about stress and informal caregiving. However, twenty years ago,such was the urge that Professor Zarit, one of the pioneers in caregiving research, claimed that more studies on stress and caregiving were needed. (Zarit, 1989)
Caregivers definition
Caregivers are those who care for people with an illness, injury, or disability.
The journal Psicología y Salud published a study which revealed that 52% of the caregivers participating in the study suffered from the caregiver stress syndrome, 36% had depression and 98% suffered from anxiety disorders.
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Caregiver stress is a common phenomenon, when it comes tocaregivers who are at jeopardy of health problems, which may involve depression or anxiety. But what is actually the caregiver stress syndrome?
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