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Aging Family Caregiver: Changes in Burden and Placement Desire

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IL-Institute on Disability & Human Development, UCEDD/LEND

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2007

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Aging family caregivers: Changes in burden and placement desire, (1993). Heller, T., & Factor, A. American Journal on Mental Retardation, 96, (2), 417-442. Interviews conducted twice over a 2.5-year period with 62 parents of adult children with mental retardation living in their home found that support resources played a role in reducing perceived caregiving burden and in determining parents' future out-of-home placement preferences for their adult child. (Author/JDD)

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