title: Caregiver strain: toward an enlarged perspective.
abstract: This article attempts to broaden the conceptual perspective of caregiver strain by developing a generalized perspective that focuses on the demands and resources of caregiving. By extension, the perspective links caregiver strain to a typology relating caregiver strain and institutionalization. The result is intended to be a new and useful conceptualization for identifying factors that differentiate sources of caregiver strain and their consequences for both individuals and society.
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000368:Aged; D005192:Family Health; D006301:Health Services Needs and Demand / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006701:Home Nursing / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D007326:Institutionalization; D012944:Social Support; D013315:Stress, Psychological / Q000209:etiology*