Chapter 10

Question 1

the act of assisting people with personal care, household chores, transportation, and other tasks associated with daily living; provided primarily by families without compensation or by direct care workers

Answer 1

caregiving

Question 2

maltreatment of older adults, including physical, sexual, and psychological abuse, and financial exploitation and neglect

Answer 2

elder mistreatment

Question 3

deprivation of care necessary to main- tain elders’ health by those trusted to provide the care (e.g., neglect by others) or by older persons themselves (self-neglect)

Answer 3

elder neglect

Question 4

federal legislation passed in 1993 that provides job protection to work- ers requiring short-term leaves from their jobs for the care of a dependent parent, seriously ill newborn, or adopted child

Answer 4

Family and Medical Leave Act

Question 5

requires state and area agencies on aging to provide services to support family caregivers

Answer 5

National Family Caregiver Support Program of 2000

Question 6

reality demands that caregivers face (income loss, job disruption, poor health)

Answer 6

objective burden

Question 7

short-term relief for caregivers; may be provided in the home or out of the home (e.g., adult day health centers)

Answer 7

respite care

Question 8

the older adult engages in behavior that threatens their own safety, even though mentally competent

Answer 8

self-neglect

Question 9

women who have competing demands from older parents, partners, children, or employment

Answer 9

women in the middle/sandwich generation

Question 10

encompasses the family caregivers’ feelings about their role, such as grief, anger, guilt, worry, loneliness, and sadness.

Answer 10

Subjective burden (p. 397):