This paper presents the EUROFAMCARE study findings, examining a typology of care situations for family carers of older people, and the interplay of carers with social and health services. Despite the complexity of family caregiving situations across ...

The detection of psychological variables with a positive impact on health during middle age is of great interest. The data of 393 middle-aged participants (aged 35–45 at T1 and 45–55 at T2) of the National Survey of Midlife Development in the United ...

Erikson already emphasized the importance of remaining generative in old age. Current instruments designed to measure generativity, however, were developed to be used with middle-aged adults. In a sample of older adults (N = 195), three newly developed ...

Background: Cognitively impaired or demented patients may have difficulty performing the complex and multidimensional appraisal required by self-ratings (SR) of quality of life (QoL). Even healthy subjects often refer to their current mood state for QoL ...