ABSTRACT

The well-being level of family caregivers of elderly patients, demented and physically impaired alike, is, and going to be, a subject of great concern for welfare policy makers and social services planners in Israel, as well as in the U.S. and other western countries. New ways must be found to help the evergrowing population of caregivers of physically impaired and demented elderly patients. The number of disabled elderly people has more than doubled itself in the last two decades.4