Search results for ‘Subject term:"older people"’ Sort:
Results 1 - 8 of 8
Marital status of caregiving daughters and co-residence with dependent parents
- Authors:
- BRODY Elaine M., et al
- Journal article citation:
- Gerontologist, 35(1), February 1995, pp.75-85.
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
The role of caregiving daughters' marital status is examined as it relates to their sharing households with disabled elderly parents. Married daughters fared best in well-being, income, and social support. Never-married women were the most likely to have never moved out of the parental home. Separated/divorced caregivers, more than married and widowed, had moved into the parent's home rather than the reverse and widowed daughters had lived in re-formed joint households longest. The main reason for re-forming shared households was the disability of the parent. Among other reasons were death or withdrawal of previous a caregiver and financial problems, with separated/divorced daughters the most likely to mention finances.
Caring for frail elderly parents: a comparison of adult sons and daughters
- Author:
- MUI Ada C.
- Journal article citation:
- Gerontologist, 35(1), February 1995, pp.86-93.
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
Examines the impact of various factors on perceived emotional strain of adult son and daughter caregivers of frail elderly parents. Daughters experienced higher levels of emotional strain than did sons. Perceived interference between caregiving and the caregiver's personal and social life predicted emotional strain for both sons and daughters. For daughters the most important predictors of emotional strain were interference with work and the quality of relationship with the parent. For sons the most important predictors were behavioural problems of the parent and few informal helpers.
Japan and the United States struggle with who will care for our aging parents when caregivers are employed
- Authors:
- LECHNER Viola M., SASAKI Masahito
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Gerontological Social Work, 24(1/2), 1995, pp.97-114.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
With the well documented increases in the number of elderly in the United States and Japan, families are facing growing responsibilities for elders who cannot care for themselves. Many of the traditional caregivers (women) are now employed. These demographic and social changes profoundly affect family life, work organisations, community services, and government. Summarises the magnitude of the problem of managing work and parent care roles in each country; summarises government, workplace, and community responses to solving the family care problems; and analyses country responses from their ideological perspective.
The impact of chronic illness on the health and well-being of family members
- Authors:
- LIEBERMAN Morton A., FISHER Lawrence
- Journal article citation:
- Gerontologist, 35(1), February 1995, pp.94-102.
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
Examines the impact of dementia on the physical and mental health of all family members caring for an ill parent/spouse. The sample included spouses of patients diagnosed with either Alzheimer's Disease or vascular dementia. Severity of illness was significantly associated with health and well-being for spouses, offspring, and in-laws, regardless of the amount of caregiving. Use of services displayed no direct association with spouse health and well-being, but service utilization interacted with illness severity. The relationship between severity of illness and spouse health was lower under conditions of high service utilization than under conditions of low service utilization.
Parents' duties, children's debts: the limits of policy intervention
- Editor:
- DEAN Hartley
- Publisher:
- Arena
- Publication year:
- 1995
- Pagination:
- 196p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Aldershot
Examines moral issues around parents responsibility for their children and how far the state should involve itself in these matters. Focuses on the role of contemporary social policy in defining and enforcing the responsibilities of parents to their offspring during childhood and of adult offspring to their parents during old age. Questions the extent to which reciprocal liabilities between parents are or should be biologically determined. Argues that, while the function of social policy is to protect the vulnerable, it must also, so far as possible, enable people to think for themselves and to fulfil their familial responsibilities and debts.
The intergenerational cycle of violence in child and elder abuse
- Authors:
- KORBIN Jill E., ANETZBERGER Georgia, AUSTIN Craig
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Elder Abuse and Neglect, 7(1), 1995, pp.1-15.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
Looks at a study in which perpetrators of elder abuse and child abuse reported on violent behaviours experienced during their childhoods using the Conflict Tactics Scales. Elder abusing adult offspring and child abusing parents did not differ significantly in their experience of 'overall' violence as children. However, child abusing parents were significantly more likely that elder abusing adult offspring to have experienced 'severe' violence in their childhoods. Results suggest that while intergenerational transmission of family violence is not an inevitable process, it is a more useful construct for explaining violence towards children than violence towards elder parents.
Stigmatized and perpetual parents: older parents caring for adult children with life-long disabilities
- Authors:
- KELLY Timothy B., KROPF Nancy P.
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Gerontological Social Work, 24(1/2), 1995, pp.3-16.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
Large number of elders provide care for family members rather than receive care. Explores the unique stresses and strains in the caregiving relationships between older parents and their adult children with developmental disabilities or mental illness. Implications for practice and policy are drawn.
Values and visions: changing ideas in services for people with learning difficulties
- Editors:
- PHILPOT Terry, WARD Linda
- Publisher:
- Butterworth-Heinemann
- Publication year:
- 1995
- Pagination:
- 422p.,bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- Oxford
Includes chapters on: supporting families of children and adults with learning difficulties; achieving supported housing; supported employment and real jobs; continuing education for adults with learning difficulties; institutional trends in services; developing better relationships between health and social services; assessment and care management; making contracts work for people with learning difficulties; user participation in services; complaints procedures; developing better services for people from black and minority ethnic communities; gender issues; older people with learning difficulties; self advocacy; challenging behaviour; sexuality; parents with learning difficulties; poverty; and media images of people with learning difficulties. Also contains sections on services provision in the United States and Canada.