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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"aging parents"”.
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The Experience of Adult Children Cargiving for Aging Parents
… When the normal progression of life for an aging person is interrupted, adult children are often suddenly faced with assuming care of their parent(s). Currently adult child caregivers of aging parents, work up to 100 hours per month at caregiving. <strong>Problem Statement:</strong> A …
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Care of Aging Parents: The Experiences of Middle-Aged Filipino Women
… how family members manage to care for aging parents. Sacrificing Self encompasses the meaning of a caring behavior. Sentiments such as affection, understanding, and respect emerged as prevalent themes to define care; and that providing care to an aging parent is to sacrifice oneself …
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Caring for aging parents in Canadian nursing homes : an ethnographic study on immigrant families’ experiences
… adapted and adjusted when caring for their parents in Canadian nursing homes. I drew the data from in-depth, semi-structured, open ended interviews with three participants. Building on symbolic interactionism theory, the analysis explored how the participants lived through the transition …
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Parenting To Posthumous: A Grounded Theory Of Aging And Parenting An Adult Who Is Mentally Ill
… theory that explains the main concerns of aging parents of adult mentally ill children and how they cope with those concerns. The methodology used was Classic Grounded Theory. Findings included the development of a substantive grounded theory titled, Parenting to Posthumous. Strategies to …
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Coping and support needs of family caregivers of older adults with a developmental disability
… adults with a developmental disability who are aging in the community and who are living with their aging parents as caregivers. This study used a phenomenological, qualitative approach to gain an in-depth understanding of the experiences of these aging family caregivers of aging adults with a …
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Sibship in Low Fertility Settings: A Microsimulation Approach
… for various outcomes (such as support of aging parents). While low fertility yields smaller sibships ceteris paribus, sibship distributions can vary among low fertility populations. Indeed, the variety of unique sibships – sib sets with only sibling dyads of a particular type – increases …
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CAREGIVING AND THE WORK-LIFE BALANCE; THE IMPACT OF GENDER EXPECTATIONS ON EMPLOYED PARENT CAREGIVERS
… how they handle the division of caregiving for aging parents and children and work responsibilities. Previous literature states that gender differences in caregiving exist due to the structure of the workforce and family. The workforce is often inflexible concerning employees’ personal schedules …
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The Long-Term Costs of Caring: How Caring for an Aging Parent Impacts Wealth Trajectories of Caregivers
… care in the U.S. is a growing concern as our aging population exerts pressure on formal and informal care systems. Public expenditures on formal care are increasing rapidly, even as reliance on informal caregivers expands. Recent policy innovations are shifting Medicaid and Medicare funding …
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Toward [Re]generative Environmental Design
… their son, with an adjacent cottage for their aging parents. With a collective desire to design, build and live in the most ecologically responsible manner possible, the challenge is to integrate as many environmentally beneficial principles as logistics and budget constraints will allow. The …
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An Examination of Caregiving Dyads: Community Dwelling Chronically Ill Older Adults and Their Caregivers
… about the availability of resources for an aging population living with chronic and debilitating illnesses. Living longer is complicated by the fact that many elders prefer to reside in their homes until medical or other conditions require an alternative living arrangement. The strong desire …
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Gender and Emotions in Family Care – Understanding masculinity and gender equality in Sweden
… The analysis draws on interviews with working parents and middle-aged sons and daughters caring for their elderly parents in Sweden. The theoretical framework outlines how gender is done, both in general terms and specifically for caregivers, to become intelligible in relation to gen-dered …
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Three Essays in Population Economics
… I fill the gap in the literature by focusing on aging parents and their adult children, that are not necessarily coresiding with them in the same housing unit, to study how family members share information, allocate resources, and influence members’ economic outcomes.</p><p>Recognizing the …
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The role of information and communication technologies in managing transition and sustaining women's health during their midlife years
… communication needs and/or preferences of their aging parents and/or their own children. Despite such constraints, this research provides strong evidence to suggest that midlife women are as adept at strategically appropriating multiple communication technologies to satisfy their own needs, as …
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Placing a Parent in the Nursing Home: the Decision-making Experience
The major objective of this study was to discover what the adult child's lived experience is when making the decision to place a parent in a nursing home.
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Education and Support Needs of Adult Children Who Provide Care for their Parents
… and support needs of 51 adult caregivers of parents or parents-in-law were analyzed. The nonprobability sample was obtained from adult children whose parent or parent-in-law was a patient in a rehabilitation unit. A revised version of E. Matthis' (1989) questionnaire was used to determine how …
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Attitudes toward old people and beliefs about aging: A generational study
… with elderly, age, factual knowledge about aging, and parental influence on attitude formation. The results revealed that age, factual knowledge, perceived ageism in mass media and parental influence were significantly related to attitude toward the elderly.
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Attitudes toward old people and beliefs about aging: A generational study
… with elderly, age, factual knowledge about aging, and parental influence on attitude formation. The results revealed that age, factual knowledge, perceived ageism in mass media and parental influence were significantly related to attitude toward the elderly.