TY - JOUR TI - "Self-Organizing Care" - caring for a person with Alzheimer's in the biography of a family carer AU - Szluz, Beata TI - "Self-Organizing Care" - caring for a person with Alzheimer's in the biography of a family carer AB - 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.  VL - 2017 IS - Volume 22, Issue 3 PY - 2018 SN - 1507-4285 C1 - 2449-6138 SP - 225 EP - 236 DO - 10.4467/24496138ZPS.17.014.8009 UR - https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/zeszyty-pracy-socjalnej/article/samoorganizowanie-troski-opieka-nad-osoba-z-choroba-alzheimera-w-biografii-opiekuna-rodzinnego KW - sociology of social problems KW - caring KW - family carer KW - Alzheimer's disease KW - biographical method