@article{bf192ccb-a76b-4614-b24c-03ff3b59c1c1, author = {Beata Szluz}, title = {"Self-Organizing Care" - caring for a person with Alzheimer's in the biography of a family carer}, journal = {Issues in Social Work}, volume = {2017}, number = {Volume 22, Issue 3}, year = {2018}, issn = {1507-4285}, pages = {225-236},keywords = {sociology of social problems; caring; family carer; Alzheimer's disease; biographical method}, abstract = {Caring for a person with Alzheimer’s disease is not only exhausting physically and emotionally, but can also have high financial costs. This problem becomes of a special importance in the presence of an ageing process of individual and society and growing number of people with Alzheimer’s disease. The paper aims to present difficulties encountered by family caregivers of people with Alzheimer’s disease. Caring for person with AD run the caregivers the high risk of decreased quality of life, it is especially true with regard to family caregivers who are emotionally related with the patient. }, doi = {10.4467/24496138ZPS.17.014.8009}, url = {https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/zeszyty-pracy-socjalnej/article/samoorganizowanie-troski-opieka-nad-osoba-z-choroba-alzheimera-w-biografii-opiekuna-rodzinnego} }