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[Aged couples and management of dependence. Study of 75 helping spouses]
H Bocquet1, F Berthier, A Gramain
1Département d'Epidémiologie, Economie de la Santé et Santé Communautaire, Faculté de Médecine, Toulouse.
Cahiers De Sociologie Et De Demographie Medicales
|April 1, 1995
Abstract:
The article displays the findings of a survey conducted among 34 husbands and 41 wives who are helping their disabled spouses. The questionnaire deals with the degree of dependency of the helped spouse, his/her health status, the health status of the helper, how the latter copes with the helping tasks, how these tasks are felt and carried out, how is the relationship between the spouses in the past and at present, what are the prospects envisaged by the helper regarding in particular the transfer of the disabled spouse to a nursing home. A scale is used for measuring the various answers.