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Caregiver Identity Theory

Rhonda Montgomery

Reduce caregiver's identity incongruence

  • head of applied Gerontology in Helen Bader School of Social Welfare
  • Professor in the department of Sociology
  • conducted numerous regional and national studies focused on public policy, the role of the family, and the role of staff in providing long term care

Tailored Caregiver Assessment and Referral

1: change their behaviors to suit their identity standard

2: change their self-appraisal or perception of agreed identity standard

3: change their identity standard

  • caregiver assessment and referral protocol developed byDr.Rhonda and her colleagues in 2007
  • describes caregiving as a systematic process of identity change
  • significant factor influencing the type and level of caregivers' stress and burden

The Self

Intimate Relationships

Parent-Child Relationships

who are the caregivers?

- often family members

- friends / siblings

Identity change process

QUIZZZZZ TIME!!!

how many phases are included in the identity change process

a: 4

b: 5

c: 7

who is Rhonda Montgomery?

a: Professor in the department of psychology

b: gerontologist

c: ethologist

  • any caregiving situation is ALWAYS a unique situation
  • no such thing as an "average" caregiver
  • great differences among caregivers in the pressure they feel to take on the caregiving role
  • unique histories and circumstances
  • caregiving role emerges from an existing role relatioinship

: occurs when the caregiver begins to perform caregiving activities that have not been part of his/her familial or friendship role in the past

: occurs when the caregiver realizes that his/her caregiving activities are starting to extend beyond the scope of the initial family or friendship role.

phase 5 is reached when the care recipient is moved to a different setting and the caregiver turns over the primary responsibility for care to formal care providers

which of these is a way to reduce caregiver's identity discrepancy?

a: change self-appraisal

b: change identity standard

c: change behaviors

: reached when the needs of the care recipient require caregiving activities that substantially extend beyond the boundaries of the original friendship or familial role.

: As caregiving requirements increase, a further shift in identity is required which we are stepping into phase 4.

fully one-third of caregivers discontinue the outside assistance within how many months?

a: one month

b: two months

c: three months

What is an "average" caregiver?

a: an average caregiver between a very good caregiver and a very bad caregiver

c: there is no such thing

THANKYOU

Effective interventions to support caregivers

for example

  • services include educational programs, counseling, and support roups
  • informal caregivers describe services " too little, too late"
  • fully one-third of caregivers discontinue within the first 90 days
  • caregiving is governed by norms or social rules
  • a person's ethnic and cultural background influences her expectations because each culture has its own norms relating to caregiving responsibility
  • identity change
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