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Caregivers living in rural areas face daunting obstacles. In addition to the isolation and anxiety that many caregivers across the country experience, rural caregivers must also cope with limited access to uncoordinated resources and severe shortages of trained professionals. Although many research, policy, and practice upgrades have been made in response to caregivers' general concerns, the specific problems facing the rural caregiver have been less frequently addressed.
Focusing on what is known as well as what is needed - and zeroing in on major subgroups within this diverse population - Rural Caregiving in the United States replaces misconceptions of the nonurban experience with real-life issues, findings, and solutions. For example, this pioneering volume:
- Covers a broad range of issues unique to rural caregiving, including research, education/training, policy, and practice.
- Identifies specific needs related to education, training, and support for rural caregivers.
- Examines both the positive and negative effects of rural living on caregivers as well as patients.
- Discusses the importance of in-home care in lieu of scarcer forms of for-profit care (e.g., hospitals).
- Addresses not only discrepancies between rural and urban health care systems but racial and ethnic disparities within rural health care.
- Explores the advantages of using information technology to address rural health care limitations.
Rural Caregiving in the United States offers uniquely knowledgeable perspectives to researchers, practitioners, and graduate students in the caregiving fields, including psychology, social work, nursing, gerontology and geriatrics, medicine, public health, public policy, and educational policy.
List of contents
Foreword by Rosslyn Carter.- Introduction.- Chapter 1. Caregiving in Rural America: A Matter of Culture; K. Chwalisz, K.C. Buckwalter, R.C. Talley.- Section I: Caregiving Populations.- Chapter 2. Family Caregiving: Implications for Rural Practice, Policy, Education, and Research; C.L. Gilliss, L.L. Davis, M.S. Harper.- Chapter 3. Elder Caregiving in Rural Communities; K.C. Buckwalter, L.L. Davis.- Chapter 4. Care for Children and Youth in Rural Areas; S.K. Walker, K.L. Reschke.- Section II: Practice and Research Issues.- Chapter 5. Addressing Disparities in Rural Health; T.M. Greer.- Chapter 6. Mental Health Concerns for Caregivers in Rural Communities; M. Morthland, F. Scogin.- Chapter 7. Research in Rural Caregiving; R.T. Goins, S.M. Spencer, J.C. Byrd.- Section III: Healthcare System Issues.- Chapter 8. Workforce Issues in Rural Caregiving; P.A. Calico.- Chapter 9. Telemedicine: The Use of Information Technology to Support Rural Caregiving; P. Yellowlees, T. Nesbitt, S. Cole.- Section IV: Assistance Strategies.- Chapter 10. Education, Training, and Support for Rural Caregivers; K. Chwalisz, S.M.C. Dollinger, E.O. Zerth, V.L. Tamkin.- Chapter 11. Strategies to Support Rural Caregivers; C.S. Wilkin, B.M. Stanback.- Chapter 12. State Responsibilities to Support Rural Caregivers; M. Greene, M.M. Perkins, K. Scott, C. Burt.- Chapter 13. Rural Caregiving: A Quilt of Many Different Colors; R.C. Talley, K.Chwalisz, K.C. Buckwalter.
About the author
Ronda C. Talley, PhD, MPH, serves as Health Scientist on the Disability and Health Team in CDC's National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities. She carries the portfolio on caregiving across the life span, including mental health and disability issues for children and youth. Dr. Talley is the immediate past Executive Director and Professor at the Rosalynn Carter Institute for Caregiving, which is located at Georgia Southwestern State University in Americus, Georgia. The RCI opened a Washington, DC, office in 2003. Dr. Talley led the RCI s National Quality Caregiving Coalition. While at the RCI, Dr. Talley conceptualized and developed the initial stages of the Caregiving book series, working with all authors and editors. Former Assistant Executive Director of Education and Director of Policy and Advocacy in the Schools for the American Psychological Association, Dr. Talley was Founding Director of the APA s Center for Psychology in Schools and Education. In her position at APA, Dr. Talley was responsible for directing Association programs that bring the knowledge and methods of psychology to bear on national issues of social reform related to schools and education, including educational research, practices, and policies. Dr. Talley is also a Fellow of APA's Division of School Psychology and author of many publications in psychology.During 1994-95, Dr. Talley was selected as an Education Policy Fellow by the Washington, DC-based Institute for Educational Leadership. As the recipient of the 1996 Outstanding Alumni Award from the Indiana University School of Education, Dr. Talley was described as 'the voice of school psychology at the national level'. She is the 1998 recipient of the Jack Bardon Distinguished Service Award from the APA Division of School Psychology. With more than 30 years of service as a special education teacher, school psychologist, school administrator, university professor, organizational advocate, lobbyist, and private consultant, Dr. Talley is a frequent writer and speaker on caregiving issues and on public policy and practice issues in health, education, and human services reform. She specializes in life span caregiving issues and organizational planning and development. Dr. Talley has served as editor of four published volumes.
Kathleen Chwalisz, PhD, is a Counseling Psychologist with a specialization in health psychology. She is chair of the Section for the Promotion of Psychotherapy Science and former chair of the Counseling Health Psychology section of Division 17 of the American Psychological Association. Her research interests include health psychology, rehabilitation psychology, neuropsychology, training of psychologists, program development and evaluation, qualitative research methodology, and structural equations modeling. Her research articles have appeared in the Journal of Counseling Psychology, Rehabilitation Psychology, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, and Journal of Psychology in Medical Settings, and she has numerous chapters in professional books in health psychology and rehabilitation psychology. She is currently on the editorial board of Rehabilitation Psychology, and she previously served on the editorial boards of the Journal of Counseling Psychology and Measurement and Evaluation in Counseling and Development. She is currently principal investigator for the SIU Rural Caregiver Telehealth Intervention Trial, a community-based clinical intervention trial sponsored by the National Institute of Aging and the National Institute of Nursing Research. Teaching and clinical interests are in supervision, conceptualization and treatment planning, psychological assessment, and evidence-based practice/empirically supported treatment. Dr. Chwalisz was recently named a Fellow of Division 17 (Society of Counseling Psychology) of the American Psychological Association.
Summary
Caregivers living in rural areas face daunting obstacles. In addition to the isolation and anxiety that many caregivers across the country experience, rural caregivers must also cope with limited access to uncoordinated resources and severe shortages of trained professionals. Although many research, policy, and practice upgrades have been made in response to caregivers’ general concerns, the specific problems facing the rural caregiver have been less frequently addressed.
Focusing on what is known as well as what is needed – and zeroing in on major subgroups within this diverse population – Rural Caregiving in the United States replaces misconceptions of the nonurban experience with real-life issues, findings, and solutions. For example, this pioneering volume:
- Covers a broad range of issues unique to rural caregiving, including research, education/training, policy, and practice.
- Identifies specific needs related to education, training, and support for rural caregivers.
- Examines both the positive and negative effects of rural living on caregivers as well as patients.
- Discusses the importance of in-home care in lieu of scarcer forms of for-profit care (e.g., hospitals).
- Addresses not only discrepancies between rural and urban health care systems but racial and ethnic disparities within rural health care.
- Explores the advantages of using information technology to address rural health care limitations.
Rural Caregiving in the United States offers uniquely knowledgeable perspectives to researchers, practitioners, and graduate students in the caregiving fields, including psychology, social work, nursing, gerontology and geriatrics, medicine, public health, public policy, and educational policy.
