title: Impact of caregiver-receiver relationship quality on burden and satisfaction.
abstract: The purpose of this study was to investigate, through an interview process, both the burden and satisfaction of the caregiving relationship between female primary caregivers and female care-receivers living in the same home. The ten cases were families involved in a caregiver/care-receiver shared-residence situation of at least one year's duration. The primary method of data collection was semi-structured interviews. The results of the qualitative approach called for a reversal of perspective. The intent was to examine how burden and satisfaction impacted the caregiver-receiver relationship quality. However, it was the quality of the relationship between the caregiver and care-receiver which distinguished low burden and high satisfaction.
authors.affiliation: School of Family, Consumer, and Nutrition Sciences, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb 60115, USA.
authors.forename: J R
authors.initials: JR
authors.lastname: Snyder
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D017028:Caregivers / Q000523:psychology*; D017281:Cost of Illness; D005195:Family Relations; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007407:Interviews as Topic; D008875:Middle Aged; D011788:Quality of Life