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Howsare, Valerie S. "Threat appraisal and coping in family members of the newly institutionalized elderly." Virtual Press, 1988. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/546142.
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The study problem was that sane individuals found institutionalizing a family member stressful, and family members required assistance in coping. The purposes of the study were to examine threat appraisal, degree of threat, and coping responses in a sample of family members of newly institutionalized elderly. The study was a descriptive correlational investigation which utilized Lazarus' theory of stress and coping as the theoretical framework.There were 21 questionnaires received from a convenience sample obtained through four nursing hens in the vicinity of a small city in Indiana. Five major categories of threat were identified. A high degree of threat was associated with each category. Both problem-focused coping and emotion-focused coping were utilized.Pearson product-mcinent correlation was used to determine that no significant relationship existed between coping responses utilized and degree of threat. ANOVA was used to reveal that there were no significant differences between coping responses utilized and demographic variables. Each scale was determined to be reliable by usage of Cronbach's alpha.School of Nursing
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Dodge, Jan Marjorie. "THE RELATIONSHIP OF FAMILY SUPPORT TO ELDER WELL-BEING." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 1987. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/276455.
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A descriptive study was conducted to examine the relationship between family support and elder well-being of a group of ambulatory elders living in the community. Information regarding the elder parent's reporting of the overall support received by adult children and its affect on well-being was sought. Forty five female subjects, aged 65 to 91 years, participated in this study. The subjects completed a questionnaire which included the Demographic Questionnaire, Family Support Exchange Questionnaire, Family APGAR, and Philadelphia Geriatric Center Morale Scale. The sample population was homogeneous and no significant correlations were demonstrated between quantity or quality measures of family support and elder well-being. The study findings were consistent with previous studies in that elder parents generally live in close proximity to at least one adult child and have frequent contact with them. Elderly parents were satisfied with the support they received from children and would confide in their children.
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Toye, Christine. "Perceived social support of family members of aged care facility residents and its relationship with family members well-being and their support of relatives in residential care." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 2000. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/1358.
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When elderly people are cared for In Aged Care Facilities (ACFs) it is known that their family members frequently suffer negative effects. These effects may be alleviated by social support and, because they feel better, family members may then offer more support to residents. In this study, the researcher tested a model with a sample of 213 family members of ACF residents. Predictive relationships were hypothesised among incentives for family members to support residents, stress related factors, the perceived formal and Informal support of family members, their psychological wellbeing, and the support they offered to residents. The researcher also developed the Relatives' of Aged Care Residents Assessment of Staff Support Tool (RACRASST) to measure family members' perceptions of support from the staff. The researcher developed the RACRASST from data obtained at interviews with family members of ACF residents and ACF staff, and from a review of the literature. The instrument underwent testing and refinement procedures, including a factor analysis. The test-retest reliability co-efficient for the scale was found to be 0.99 over 2-3 days. As used In the study, the RACRASST was a 29-ltem unidimensional scale. Response options ranged from Strongly Disagree to Strongly Agree. A not applicable option was retained to identify Items needing review. Items referred to staff/family member communication, staff care activities, staff use of the environment, and family members' perceptions of a reliable alliance between themselves and the staff. The instrument was re-examined during the study and two items were deleted because of a high percentage of missing/not applicable responses. Cronbach's alpha co-efficient for the 27-item RACRASST was 0.96. Findings of model testing confirmed hypothesised positive predictive relationships between residents' family members' well-being (the dependent variable) and both family members' perceptions of the residents' adjustment and the length of stay. Pressures related to the placement were confirmed as negatively predicting well-being In family members, and the degree to which family members felt attached to residents was confirmed as positively predicting their self-reported support of residents. The familial relationship between the family member and the resident was also confirmed as predicting family members' well-belng. Support from ACF staff was not a significant predictor of family members' well-being, and well-being failed to predict family members' support for residents. An empirical model was also developed. This model accounted for 47% of the variance in family members' well-belng and 23% of the variance In family members' self-reported support for residents. Family members' perceptions of their informal support were found to account for 7% of the variance In support for residents and 5% of the variance in pressures experienced because of the placement. Pressures in family members negatively predicted their health and well-belng, and being a residents' daughter was a positive predictor of pressures. The main conclusion is that informal support is potentially highly beneficial to residents' family members. Accordingly, it is recommended that ACF staff facilitate supportive relationships among family members and residents. Further research to develop and test the RACRASST and to test the empirical model is also recommended.
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Bromley, Mark Calvin. "Planning for long-term care : filial behavior and relationship quality of adult children with independent parents /." Diss., This resource online, 1990. http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-09162005-115040/.
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Sandberg, Jonas. "Placing a spouse in a care home for older people : (re)-constructing roles and relationships /." Linköping : Univ, 2001. http://www.bibl.liu.se/liupubl/disp/disp2001/med710s.pdf.
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Trinh, Thai Quang. "Ageing and inter-generational relationships in Vietnam." Phd thesis, Canberra, ACT : The Australian National University, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/151965.
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This thesis investigates the intergenerational relationships of
people aged 60 and over in the context of rapid population ageing
and social change in Vietnam. The country is experiencing
significant economic development and rising incomes while
maintaining strongly embedded Confucian values and norms on
family relationships, including respect for older people and
filial piety. These relationships have been affected by the
social disruptions of war, and continue to change with
modernisation, urbanisation and other social processes that have
contributed to modifying traditional norms and values for
intergenerational relationships. Changing forms of the family,
notable declines in multigenerational households and the rise of
the modified extended family have been extensive over recent
decades. This thesis aims to examine the variations and changes
in living arrangements and intergenerational support exchange,
social relationships (association, affection and consensus) and
the life satisfaction of older people.
The thesis applies concepts in sociology and multidisciplinary
gerontology to a comprehensive set of secondary data that inform
different aspects of the thesis topic. These include the Vietnam
National Ageing Survey 2011 (VNAS 2011) (n = 2,789), the Vietnam
Family Survey 2006 (VFS 2006) (n = 13,689), the WHO-SAGE INDEPTH
survey 2006–2007 (WSI 2007) (n = 5,030) and the Regional Ageing
Survey 1996–1997 (RAS 1996 – 1997) (n = 1,770). VNAS 2011 was
used as the primary data source for the thesis as it was the
first nation-wide survey on older people in Vietnam.
To examine the living arrangements of older people, VNAS 2011 and
RAS 1996–1997 have been analysed to investigate determinants
and consequences of living arrangements. A majority of older
people were found to be living in multi-generational households
in 2011 (45%), but the proportion had declined from 56% in
1996–1997. Conversely, the proportions living alone or living
only with a spouse have been rising. These findings reflect
declining family size along with growing ‘independence’ among
older people as they gain more economic resources and better
health. No longer married older people are seen more in
multi-generational households, living only with children or
living alone than
those who are married. Older people living alone or only with a
spouse were found more in rural than urban areas.
Multi-generational households were reported more in cities, which
may be because of housing constraints in these areas. Changes in
cultural preferences for living arrangements have been enabled by
rising resources of the older and middle generations.
The investigation provides support for an intergenerational
exchange interpretation as a strong association was found between
older people’s resources and vulnerabilities and support
exchange with their children. As per traditional patrilineal
norms, eldest adult sons were expected to continue living in
their ageing parents’ households after marriage while they and
their wife provide financial and practical support. Older people
who have more resources were found to receive more financial
support, but they receive less assistance in care and housework
from adult children than older people who have fewer resources.
Older people who have more resources also provided more
assistance to adult children by doing housework and providing
grandparenting, especially among those who live in
multigenerational
households.
Social relationships between generations were reported to be
changing rather than weakening. Adult children, regardless of
their gender, were reported to pay more direct visits to older
parents when they live nearby. When they live far apart, the
distance was overcome by remittances and telephone communication
as well as occasional visits.
Daughters were found to be more frequently in their contact with
parents than sons when living in separate households. The
findings suggest a gender-basis for emotional relationships
between generations within families.
This thesis found that life satisfaction in later life is best
predicted by older people’s health, economic status and living
conditions as well as the social relationships among generations.
The thesis also provides evidence on the ongoing importance of
affectual solidarity between generations and the importance to
older people’s life satisfaction of feeling respected by
younger generations and participating in making important
decisions in the family.
This study is one of the first comprehensive studies of
intergenerational relations in Vietnam. It suggests the value of
an intergenerational approach for policy development towards
older people and family relationships as well as the value of an
age-friendly environment for older people, particularly for those
who are vulnerable. Caution is required
in applying the research findings to future generations of older
people, who would have had different life experiences.
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Calderone, Pauline Marie. "Caregiving and carereceiving patterns among Arab-Americans living in California and Arabs living in Israel." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 1999. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/1716.
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Miles, Julie Ann. "Attitudes toward old people and beliefs about aging: A generational study." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 1995. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/1009.
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Attitudes toward the elderly were examined in three generations through analysis of media use, gender, contact 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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Hines, Monique Avril. "Living with autism : a narrative analysis of older parents' experiences." Thesis, Faculty of Health Sciences, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/10233.
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Choy, Choi-lin, and 蔡彩蓮. "The impact of family relations on caregiving effectiveness peceived bythe adult-child as primary caregiver to the elderly suffering fromchronic obstructive airway diseases (COAD)." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1994. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31249711.
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Atherton, Iain Maitland. "Migration and the informal support networks of older people in Scotland." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/161.
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This thesis investigates the effects of national patterns of migration on informal support for older adults in contemporary Scotland. It argues that geography matters, and develops a multi-scale conceptual framework to analyse the relationships among population mobility, contrasting local contexts in which older people live, and care and support from the intergenerational family and the community. 130 older persons from three locales with different migration patterns are recruited to the study and a mixed-method approach is adopted, using data from the census, a questionnaire survey and a set of in-depth interviews with both older people and formal service providers. The findings demonstrate significant differences between the three study locales in terms of the geography of the intergenerational family and the extent and nature of informal support received. Daughters provide more support than sons, suggesting the continuation of traditional gender norms. Local community is important, especially in the rural locale, but friends and neighbours are not providing a substitute for adult children living at a distance. It appears that non-kin respond to need where physical health is compromised but not where the older person suffers from depression. This raises serious questions about the future of family support in an increasingly mobile society with declining fertility and growing numbers of adult daughters in full-time employment. The relationships demonstrated confirm and extend many previous findings, but the discussion concludes that there are some grounds for optimism. The intergenerational family remains important to its members who can and do overcome geographical separation at times of crisis. Further, slowly changing gender norms, combined with contemporary demographic trends, may effect changes in the pattern of intergenerational support, which will, to some extent, offset the worsening older-age dependency ratios predicted for Scotland and other European countries over the next few decades.
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Cruikshank, Sheila Ann. "Chinese families in supportive care." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 1990. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/28762.
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This study was designed to explore how Chinese families managed the care of an adult member with advanced cancer both in home and hospital settings, to identify factors that affected care management, to examine the influence of cultural beliefs and practices on caregiving, and to examine the preference for location of care, from the perspective of one family member. The method used in conducting this study was the grounded theory approach of qualitative research.
Data were collected through a series of interviews with six Chinese informants (five adult children and one spouse). The initial interviews were guided by the research questions. Constant comparative analysis was employed throughout data collection to permit analytic material to guide and focus the process of constructing the core social process. The informants' degree of ethnic identity was measured using the Ethnic Identity Questionnaire to further validate the researcher's observations pertaining to cultural orientation.
The results indicated that Chinese families managed the care of an adult member with advanced cancer through the balancing process. This process, used when patients were in hospital and home, characterized the struggle the families experienced in managing everchanging caregiving demands and everyday family demands. Balancing was comprised of four interrelated management strategies: gauging, anticipating, sharing the load, and resourcing. It was concluded that the process is not culturally-bound although activities of trying out and patterns of help-seeking were thought to be
culturally based. Factors which were found to influence the balancing process were past experiences and the patients' and family members' style or previous patterns of coping. Cultural beliefs influenced family members' actions and the reasons given for their actions.
The results also indicated that Chinese families preferred care at home to care in the hospital. However, care at home was contingent on four factors: availability and ability of caregivers, family support, information from physician, and patients' physical condition and symptom management. The hospital setting was identified as the place where the ill family would die.
In terms of nursing practice, the results support the need for nurses to be family-focused and support the actions of family members as the families manage the care. The results also suggest nurses to explore their own beliefs as well as beliefs of patients and families to ensure sensitivity is shown to differences. The findings reinforce the importance of educating families, as well as other health care professionals, about nursing's role in providing care, especially in the community. With regard to nursing research, the results reinforce the need to conduct family unit research and further explore the validity of the balancing process with more Chinese families and other ethnic groups.Applied Science, Faculty of
Nursing, School of
Graduate
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Barrett, Thomas. "Elder Abuse : Agencies' Experiences and Seniors' Relationships." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 1998. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/234.
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This study examines elder abuse in an Australian context and comprises two parts: agencies' experiences with elder abuse; and seniors and their relationships. The first part sought baseline data on elder abuse as recorded by a range of agencies in New South Wales (NSW) and Western Australia (WA). A mailed questionnaire was sent to a random sample of 400 agencies per State, seeking information for the 1994 calendar year regarding abused elders 65 years of age or older, and resulted in an overall return rate of 57.62%. Data was analysed using SPSS for Windows.
The second part of the study was qualitative, exploratory and phenomenological in nature. The objectives were: to increase the knowledge and understanding of elder abuse within an Australian context by examining the experiences and feelings of care givers and care recipients in the transition from independence to dependence for one partner; to identify factors contributing to the abuse of elderly persons in private accommodation; to determine the relevance of a disability-related dependency to the likely occurrence of elder abuse; and to explore the applicability of a range of theories, in particular social exchange theory and the situational model, to caring situations.
A purposive, nonrandom sample of nine cases was drawn totalling 12 persons who were interviewed using a semi-structured questionnaire. Four general research questions examined the characteristics of the participants prior to the onset of caring; explored the impact of the change from the pre-caring stage to the caring stage on the respondents; assessed caring demands on the care giver; and sought to determine the impact of continuous care provision on the care giver/care recipient relationship. Seven ancillary research questions addressed more specific aspects of the care giver/care recipient relationship. Qualitative data analysis utilised NUD.IST.
The major findings from part 1 of the study revealed 92 (44%) agencies in NSW and 66 (26.2%) in WA had seen cases of elder abuse in 1994. In both States, female elder abuse victims as care recipients, were represented three times more often over a greater range of victims per agency than male counterparts. Psychological, physical, material/financial and sexual forms of abuse, plus neglect, were represented in both States' findings. Psychological abuse was most frequent in NSW, and in WA, neglect. Sexual abuse was reported with least frequency in both States. In each State, victims were represented in a ratio of approximately 1:6 (care giver to care recipients). For care givers, the most common forms of abuse received were physical, psychological and material/financial.
No reliable Australian data exists on the incidence and prevalence of elder abuse. These research findings indicated its presence and found similarities with findings in the USA, Canada and the UK for perpetrators and abuse types. Perpetrators of elder abuse included: spouses; sons; sons-in-law; de facto partners; daughters; and daughters-in-law. Spouses were cited most often as perpetrators in both States followed by sons and daughters in NSW and daughters-in-law and sons in WA.
Direct agency services for victims were found wanting. Where available, they provided information; counselling; mediation; and referral.
Mandatory reporting of elder abuse was supported in both NSW ( 4 7 .1 % ) and WA (44.8%). One-third of the agencies in both States were undecided on the issue and the remainder were opposed. However, many agencies ignored the question, leaving the results inconclusive.
The major findings from part 2 of the study revealed eight of nine care givers interviewed to have been in long-term marriages and of having satisfying relationships prior to the onset of the partner's disability. Trauma, loss and grief experiences prior to their partner's disability, for some, exacerbated the demands of caring in later years.
The onset of the disability-related dependency whether sudden, or gradual, determined how the care giver coped initially. Regardless of the type of disability, common feelings expressed by care givers included: social isolation; change or loss in communication; a sense of coping alone; lack of external supports; feeling trapped; a loss of intimacy with the partner; stress, both structural and situational; having health problems related to carer stress; physical and mental exhaustion; anger; disappointment; frustration; general loss and grief; resentment; sadness; anxiety; and the monotony of the caring role. Environmental factors were rarely mentioned as being stressful. There appeared to be a connection between care giver stress and elder abuse in eight of the nine cases studied, notably psychological abuse. Physical abuse was indirect, and only one possible instance of neglect was noted. Sexual and material/financial abuse were not represented in the sample of case studies.
Theories associated with elder abuse explored in the study included: stress theory; crisis theory; learned violence; issues of dependency; mental impairment; loss and grief; societal ageism and sexism. The findings lend only partial support to the situational model as a possible explanation for elder abuse. This study identified as situational factors: physical dependency; poor health; impaired mental status; difficult personalities in the care recipients; and corresponding care giver health problems. Only one structural factor was identified, namely social isolation. The concepts associated with social exchange theory - including power advantage/disadvantage, positive sentiments, rewards and punishments, instrumental services and personal resources - were evident across the nine cases. However, without the application of additional variables, it could not be concluded that social exchange theory, on its own, adequately explained elder abuse. No one theory emerged as offering a satisfactory explanation for the causes of elder abuse, suggesting that its complex and diverse nature defies a single causal theory.
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Clark, Carol D. "The lived experience of Type 2 diabetes in married couples between the ages of 60 and 70." Virtual Press, 2007. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1378145.
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The focus of this qualitative phenomenological research study was the lived experience of married couples between the ages of 60 and 70, one of whom has type 2 diabetes. The author sought to discover additional meanings concerning the experience of diabetic education, adherence to medications plans, modifications in lifestyle, and the role of the non-diabetic spouse in the experience. Participants were six married couples between the ages of 60 and 70. Three wives and three husbands had been diagnosed with type 2 diabetes. Two one hour interviews were conducted with each couple, both spouses present. Each couple was asked the question "Tell me what it is like living with diabetes." Interviews were audio taped and transcribed by the researcher. Informant volunteers were identified using the snowball method of sampling. The author identified the two domains of experience with the health care system and experience with the spouse..Themes of the first domain were identified as relationship with health care provider and education of patient and spouse at time of diagnosis. Themes in the second domain were spousal support, perceived compliance, and perceived risk of complications. Implications for adult education and advanced nursing practice include the importance of including the non-diabetic spouse in the education and treatment plan at time of diagnosis and offering a clear explanation of the relationship between adherence and long term complications of the disease. Suggestions for further research include investigation of the self reporting of behavior modification and outcomes of adherence, the effectiveness of provider interventions in monitoring behavioral changes, and to study women with diabetes married to men without diabetes.Department of Educational Studies
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Barrah, Jaime Lynn. "Elder care based work-family conflict: Antecedents and outcomes." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2001. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/1914.
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Aboderin, Isabella Anike Gbemisola. "Social change and the decline in family support for older people in Ghana : an investigation of the nature and causes of the shifts in support." Thesis, University of Bristol, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/1983/c2e7862f-7821-4add-bae5-5517a0a5989c.
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Solsberry, Priscilla Wilson. "Cognitive factors in marital satisfaction among older retired couples and couples in their twenties." Virtual Press, 1993. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/862268.
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This study was designed to investiate the relationship between marital satisfaction and adherence to dysfunctional beliefs concerning the marital relationship among married couples in their twenties and retired married couples 65 years of age and older. Additionally, adherence to socially desirable response sets was also measured.Marital satisfaction among older couples was significantly higher than that of younger couples (p < .001). Older men demonstrated significantly greater adherence to dysfunctional beliefs about marriage than younger men (p < .01), while these beliefs were not significantly different for older and younger women. Older couples also demonstrated significantly greater adherence to socially desirable response sets than younger couples (p < .001 for women and p < .01 for men).Increased marital satisfaction was significantly correlated with decreased adherence to dysfunctional beliefs for all subjects (p < .001 for older women and p < .01 for all others) and with greater social desirability responding for all subjects except younger women (p < .01). Level of marital satisfaction among older couples was most influenced by that of one's spouse, while the satisfaction of younger couples was most affected by one's adherence to the belief that disagreement is destructive to the marriage.Department of Counseling Psychology and Guidance Services
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Curle, Marjorie Lynne. "Perspectives on need : respite care services for the elderly and their families." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 1988. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/27711.
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Respite Care programs for the elderly and their families are being recognized and developed within Long Term Care systems. Research on these programs is sparse and focused on outcome studies. Very little work has been published that addresses grounded theory building or exploratory needs assessments in the definition of need and objectives for respite care.
This exploratory study addresses the issue of need for respite from two perspectives. Within an urban Canadian center, focused interviews were conducted with a sample of family caregivers in high risk situations. Case scenario questionnaires were distributed and focused interviews conducted with Long Term Care case Managers, content analysis was used to identify themes and issues from all data sources.
The themes and categories that emerged from the data are discussed in relation to a system stimulation model and locus of control perspective as applied to understanding need and establishing program objectives and delivery patterns. Implications for needs assessments, program design, intervention, and future research are presented.Arts, Faculty of
Social Work, School of
Graduate
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Reynolds, Margaret Anne. "Adult daughters as caregivers to elderly parents : an exploration of the care relationship." PDXScholar, 1987. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/3792.
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In this study, the nature of a current social problem is explored: the provision of services to elderly parents by their adult daughters - a part of the informal system of social support for the elderly. In particular, the influence of the caregiver's construction of old age on their assessment of parental autonomy is examined.
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Ziner, Andrew Scott. "On Parent-Child Relations: Toward the Construction of a Theory of Filial Exchange." Thesis, North Texas State University, 1986. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc331914/.
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This investigation represents an initial attempt toward the construction of a general life cycle theory of parent-child relations. Emphasis was placed on the parent-adult child relationship with the onset of a filial crisis, e.g., due to illness. After the theory was described, two of the five propositions comprising this orientation (i.e., propositions four and five) were analyzed through a series of twenty-five hypotheses. The objectives of these hypotheses were (a) to analyze the relationship between the length of time involved in various patterns of filial responsibility and the likelihood that these patterns will become institutionalized as obligatory roles and (b) to determine how factors associated with these emergnt role obligations contribute to the cost of caregiving. A probability sample of 180 caregivers was obtained from within the Dallas/Ft. Worth area. Multiple and partial correlation analyses and the use of Student's t revealed that the length of time involved as a caregiver was significantly related to the number of informal caregiving roles performed by adult children. In addition, results indicated that the length of involvement in each caregiving role examined (i.e., household care, transportation service, personal care, medical attention, meal preparation, financial management and mobility assistance) was significantly related to (a) the frequency of providing these services to an aged parent and (b) the level of responsibility in each service area except financial management (which tended to remain constant over time)• An adult child s level of obligation to ensure that caregiving services were provided was also significantly associated with the length of caregiving involvement. Furthermore, this study found tentative support for the contention that the social-psychological cost of providing care for a dependent parent was associated with (a) the frequency of providing transportation services and medical attention, (b) the number of informal caregiving activities performed and (c) the length of caregiver involvement. A set of three control variables (i.e., the household living arrangements and both the aged parent s and adult child's physical health status) were identified as significant contributors to the cost of caregiving. Based on the empirical results of this investigation, propositions four and five of the theoretical perspective presented in this dissertation were supported.
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Clark, Warren G. "Parental role behavior, psychological centrality and self-esteem among the elderly." Diss., Virginia Tech, 1993. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/27986.
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Previous research has failed to identify a strong relationship between parental role involvement and self-esteem of parents despite theoretical and intuitive support for the prediction. An explanatory model of the interaction between role occupancy, psychological centrality of the role, and self-esteem among older parents was presented. Data from the National Survey of Families and Households (NSFH) were used to test a path model examining the effects of the roles of parent, spouse, and worker, as well income, age, sex, and health on self-esteem. The data failed to support the model as presented. Role involvement did not affect self-esteem and psychological centrality had a direct effect instead of the proposed interactive effect. Health was the strongest predictor of self-esteem. In contrast to previous research, age negatively affected self-esteem in this sample.Ph. D.
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Granath, Nerell Karin. "Äldre personers relationer och erfarenheter av sin ursprungsfamilj." Thesis, Ersta Sköndal högskola, S:t Lukas utbildningsinstitut, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:esh:diva-4867.
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Inledning: Det är viktigt att öka kunskapen om den växande samhällsgruppen individer som är 65 år och äldre enligt Stockholms läns landsting (2013). Studien har undersökt hur denna samhällsgrupp beskriver sina relationer till sin ursprungsfamilj. Frågeställningar: Hur beskriver äldre individer sina relationer till sin ursprungsfamilj retrospektivt? Vilka relationella erfarenheter framstår som signifikanta i deras berättelser? Metod: Studiens metodval är kvalitativ och datainsamlingen utgjordes av en ostrukturerad intervjuform. Totalt intervjuades 5 personer. Resultat: Resultatet redovisas utifrån olika tidsperioder samt tre teman som framkom i analysen: Barndom och uppväxttid, ung vuxen och identitetskap samt vuxenliv och autonomi. Diskussion: Relationen idag bygger på minnen när respondenterna blickar tillbaka på sina liv. Mamma beskrivs ha haft ett alltför stort inflytande under uppväxten och pappa beskrivs som viktig - framför allt längre upp i åldrarna. Banden till syskonen har oftast stärkts under vuxenlivet. Respondenterna beskriver också att de har hittat strategier att acceptera, förlåta och försonas med det liv de hittills har levt, i takt med ju äldre de har blivit, vilket överensstämmer väl med teorin om gerotrancendens (Tornstam, 2010)Introduction: It is important to increase awareness of the growing social group of individuals who are 65 years and older according to the Stockholm County Council (2013). This study has investigated how this social group describes their relationships with their family of origin. Research question: How to describe older individuals their relationships with their family of origin retrospectively? Which relational experience emerges as significant in their stories? Method: The study's methodological choices are qualitative and data collection was made up of unstructured interview form. Total interviewed 5 people. Results: The results reported from different time periods and three themes that emerged from the analysis: Childhood and adolescence , young adult and identity munity and adulthood and autonomy. Discussion: The relationship today is based on memories when respondents look back on their lives. Mom described having had too much influence during childhood and father is described as important - especially later age. Bands siblings usually have strengthened during adulthood. Respondents also describe that they have found strategies to accept, forgive and reconcile with the life they have lived so far - as the older they become, which agrees well with the theory of gerotrancendens ( Tornstam, 2010).
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Achor, Sam Ndu. "Family visits or contact to dementia elderly at long term care facilities." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2000. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/1581.
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Hibbs, Julie Anne, and Stephen Michael Thomas. "Client functionality, filial abuse and agency interventions." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2004. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/2452.
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Park, Seung-Min. "An ageing population in a family and welfare state : the dynamics of family support and public pension systems, and their impact on late-life happiness in contemporary South Korea." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2012. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:041dae1e-8b4b-4ca6-9743-2a42b655e5bc.
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The purpose of this thesis is to analyze the dynamics of family support and public pension systems, and their impact on late-life happiness in contemporary South Korea. For this, three specific research questions, namely (1) the dynamics of intergenerational solidarity, public pension systems, and happiness; (2) the association between intergenerational solidarity and happiness; and (3) the association between public pension systems and happiness, are analysed by exploiting the Korean Longitudinal Study of Ageing. The analyses show that (1) the structural solidarity of older people is relatively stronger than of middle-aged people; (2) contacting is the key player in associational solidarity in later life; (3) middle-aged people supply more financial aid to their adult children than they receive from them, but the reverse applies to older people. Both middle-aged and older people actively exchange food, household items, and health-care supplies; (4) more older men receive the National Pension Scheme benefit than older women but the reverse is true for the Basic Old-Age Pension benefit; (5) the level of happiness in later life is very high but decreases as people age; (6) the number of adult children, frequency of contact, and amount of financial support are positively associated with the happiness of older people; and (7) the National Pension Scheme is positively associated with the happiness of older men while the Basic Old-Age Pension is negatively associated with the happiness of older people. The results suggest some policy implications for late-life happiness in contemporary South Korea. At the individual level, increased frequency of contact, availability of the children, and the amount of financial support can enhance late-life happiness. At the governmental level, the research suggests that the gendered structure of the National Pension Scheme and means-tested structure of the Basic Old-Age Pension should be reformed.
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Robertson, Jane M. "Making sense and finding meaning : comparing narratives of older people with dementia and carers about the quality of an ordinary life." Thesis, University of Stirling, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/2530.
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This research examines narratives about the quality of everyday life with dementia. The aim of the study is to compare and contrast differing perspectives about the impact of ageing and dementia upon the lives of older people with dementia. A total of 50 interviews with six older people with dementia and ten family and paid carers were conducted over a two-year period. Narrative analysis was used to examine the content and structure of their accounts to understand their perspectives on what matters most to people living with dementia. This in-depth analysis enabled an exploration of different social concepts and narrative constructions that people draw upon in making sense of their experiences of caring and living with dementia. The analysis demonstrated that older people incorporate ageing and dementia into a continuing sense of self. Positive constructions of living with dementia involve the ability to lead a meaningful life that supports pre-existing social roles and relationships and active engagement within the family and community. The emphasis is on living an ordinary life while responding to the challenges associated with cognitive impairment and social stigma. For family and paid carers, perceptions of a meaningful life depend on how the identity of the older person with dementia is positioned relative to past social roles and relationships. Positive constructions assume continuity as opposed to focusing on disruption in the person’s identity and life. Carer perspectives are also influenced by how the person is perceived to conform to social standards of normality. The narratives of older people with dementia reflect their active struggle to find meaning in terms of realising their sense of self within a social world that largely defines them as different and out of the ordinary. The narratives of carers resonate with emotional difficulty, reflecting their struggle to make sense of a life that is not represented as essentially normal. These findings show that, for all, finding meaning in everyday life depends upon making sense of that life as normal and ordinary.
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Costa, Christina Mello Amorim. "A parentalidade invertida em famílias com idosos à luz das lealdades invisíveis." Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, 2017. https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/20577.
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This dissertation was elaborated with the intention of knowing lived experiences of the relatives along the elderly people, in relation to the dismissed care to them, in a intergenerational perspective, emphasizing the concept of invisible loyalties. The dissertation was executed from the systematic review of literature about the family and elderly people; we conducted a brief history of family in Brazil, including the legal questions. We treat the unfairness and violence suffered by the elderly in brazilian society, as well as the contributions of the family vital cycle theory, emphasizing the last phase, from a reflection about experiences of people with more than eighty years old. We discussed about the situation of family and professional caregivers, how they behave and their impacts inside the family nucleus. Inside the family psychological parameter, the invisible loyalties present a dynamic interaction among the elements which compose a family, through generations that, in coexistence, confers an adherence to the relation system. We count with the participation of four families, which their experiences enriched the comprehension and elucidation of the treatment given to the old people through one construction of genograms and interviews, that shows us the quality of the relationship between sons and elderly parents are the consequences of a whole history of past generations
Esta dissertação foi elaborada com o intuito de conhecer as experiências vividas dos familiares junto ao idoso, no que se refere aos cuidados dispensados a eles, numa perspectiva intergeracional, enfatizando o conceito de lealdades invisíveis. A dissertação foi executada a partir da revisão sistemática de literatura em família e idosos; realizamos um breve histórico da família no Brasil, incluindo questões jurídicas. Tratamos, na sociedade brasileira, das deslealdades e violência sofridas pelos idosos, bem como das contribuições da teoria do ciclo vital familiar, enfatizando a fase última, a partir de uma reflexão acerca das vivências das pessoas com mais de oitenta anos. Discorremos sobre a situação dos cuidadores familiares e profissionais, como eles se portam e seus impactos dentro do núcleo familiar. Dentro do parâmetro psicológico familiar, as lealdades invisíveis apresentam uma dinâmica de interação entre os elementos que compõem a família, por meio das gerações, que, na convivência, confere uma adesão ao sistema relacional. Contamos com a participação de quatro famílias que com suas experiências enriqueceram a compreensão e elucidação do tratamento dado aos idosos, por meio da construção de genogramas e entrevistas, que nos mostra a qualidade da relação entre filhos e pais idosos são consequências de toda uma história de gerações passadas
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Waldon, Elizabeth, and Debbie Ann Davis. "An exploratory study of foster care emanicipation in an adult population: Home again, home again." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2001. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/2258.
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This qualitative study explored the foster care emanicipation experience of adults who had "aged out" of the foster care system. This study found that foster care had negative impacts on participants' ability to form attachments while in foster care and in their adult relationships.
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Kaney, Dennis. "The assessment of caregiver burden among participants in the Home-Based Primary Care program." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2000. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/1621.
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With the increase in the elderly, American's caregiver roles and responsibilities are also on the rise. Developing with this increase is the growing problem of caregiver burden. The Loma Linda V. A. Hospital has developed a service known as the Home-Based Primary Care program designed to combat caregiver burden. Studies were conducted among caregiver participants in this program in an effort to evaluate overall levels of burden and the program's efficiency at meeting caregiver needs. Overall this program provides a useful model for future programs aimed at reducing caregiver burden. Limitations that can be improved, however, include consistency in scheduling, reliable staffing, and continuity in care.
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Pereira, Regislaine Leoncio. "Possibilidades no cuidar: a história dos familiares cuidadores do CERESI." Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, 2017. https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/20519.
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The demographic revolution and the change in the epidemiological profile confront us with an unwanted reality in the aging process. Although old age is not synonymous with illness, many seniors are aging with morbidities that affect their physical and cognitive ability making them dependent on care. In this scenario the figure of the family caregiver or the care professional appears. Researches that has proposed to look at the care done by family members indicates that caregivers often become ill and succumb to the caring process. However, for reasons pursued in this study, the experience is not common to all caregivers, it is possible to find other possibilities of care in caregivers who developed a healthy relationship in this path. This study aims to discuss the issue of care and the elements that may contribute to overcome the difficulties inherent in family care at home. To do so, we rescued the history of a municipal service and interviewed family caregivers who participate in the Caregiver Support Group. The bibliographic survey pertinent to the theme was fundamental to the research. To deepen the research we used the qualitative method which will allow us to observe and understand the different stories of 06 (six) caregivers and their relationship of care to the elderly family. Center for Reference to the Elderly Health (CERESI) in Guarulhos was our scenario of observation and meeting of respondents who answered open questionnaires, semi-structured interviews and life history narratives
A revolução demográfica e a mudança no perfil epidemiológico nos confrontam com uma realidade não desejada no processo de envelhecimento. Embora a velhice não seja sinônimo de doença, muitas pessoas estão envelhecendo com morbidades que afetam sua capacidade física e cognitiva tornando-as dependentes de cuidados. Neste cenário, surge a figura do cuidador familiar ou do profissional do cuidado. Pesquisas que propuseram se debruçar sobre o cuidado realizado por familiar, indicam que não raramente os cuidadores adoecem e sucumbem ao processo de cuidar. Entretanto, por razões perseguidas neste estudo, a experiência não é comum a todos cuidadores, é possível encontrar outras possibilidades de cuidado em cuidadores que desenvolveram uma relação saudável neste percurso. O presente trabalho tem como objetivo discutir a questão do cuidado e os elementos que podem contribuir para a superação das dificuldades inerentes ao cuidado familiar no domicílio. Para tanto, resgatamos a história de um serviço municipal e entrevistamos familiares cuidadores que participam do Grupo de Apoio ao Cuidador. O levantamento bibliográfico pertinente ao tema foi fundamental para a pesquisa. Para aprofunda-la, recorremos ao método qualitativo, que permitirá observar e compreender as diferentes histórias de 06 (seis) cuidadoras e sua relação de cuidado ao idoso familiar. O Centro de Referência à Saúde do Idoso (CERESI) em Guarulhos foi o nosso cenário de observação e de encontro das entrevistadas que responderam a questionários abertos e entrevistas narrativas
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Pramualratana, Anthony. "Support systems of the old in a rural community in Thailand." Phd thesis, 1990. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/128745.
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The ageing of populations is an emerging demographic
phenomenon for many Third World countries. This
exploratory study of support systems of the old in Thailand
applies integrative methods for conducting social research.
Information collected included quantitative data such as
field censuses and surveys and unpublished public health
statistics. Qualitative information included participant
observation, case studies, oral histories and in-depth and
focus group discussions. These various research techniques
were blended together into a field study design.
The study finds that societal change has dramatically
affected the village domestic farming cycle and communal
interdependencies which had existed in the recent past.
Old people now receive less act ive and social support, and,
with monetization of the countryside are very dependent on
their children's remittances . The study places emphasis on
the relationship between adult children, as the main
supporters, and the old as the key issue in analysing
support, rather than on purely statistical proportions of
the ageing of the population.
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Yan, Hao. "Family support for the elderly in rural China : an illustration from Shaanxi." Phd thesis, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/144727.
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"Elderly, vertical village: a comprehensive community for elderly." 2006. http://library.cuhk.edu.hk/record=b5892439.
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Cheung Ho Ting Kenniss."Architecture Department, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Master of Architecture Programme 2005-2006, design report."
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Yang, Haiou. "The family support system for the elderly in rural China." Thesis, 1989. http://hdl.handle.net/10125/10291.
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Alam, Md Ashraful. "Hopes and expectations of the elderly in rural Bangladesh : experiences from Matlab." Phd thesis, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/149689.
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Funk, Laura Megan. "Responsibility for aging parents: independence and obligation within filial relationships." Thesis, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1828/2094.
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Thoughts and feelings around commitments and responsibilities to ensure the well-being of others are an important aspect of the everyday experience of relationships, particularly family relationships, and are especially salient in caregiving situations. In this dissertation I focus on the interpretation of the meaning of filial responsibility, from a sociological perspective: that is, how discourses are enacted within adult children's descriptions and assessments of what they do and feel towards aging parents. Between 2005 and 2006, I interviewed a non-random sample of 28 men and women with one or both elderly parents living in or near Victoria. British Columbia. Interviews were loosely structured explorations of participants' feelings and thoughts about their personal sense of responsibility for their parent(s). I viewed the data not only as windows into individual experiences. but as interpretive accounts mediated by dominant socio-cultural discourses. Participants responded to the construct of responsibility for parents by contradicting themselves, repeatedly qualifying their responses, or rejecting or revising the concept. There was particular difficulty in talk about "feeling responsible." Participants" accounts are explained with reference to the interpretive construction of personal meaning, and to the broader symbolic meanings of responsibility: as externally imposed obligation, as involving control over others, and as burdensome and unwanted. In their own accounts, participants reacted to this meaning by redefining or rejecting the concept at the level of their personal experiences. In doing so, they often prioritized individualistic ideals of personal choice and parental autonomy. Many also emphasized the role of love and affection in their relationships, although the extent to which this represents the manifestation of individualistic or familialistic discourses varies between individuals. Lastly, despite privileging individualism in their accounts of personal responsibility for parents, when asked to comment about "Canadian society," a cultural emphasis on individualism tended to be characterized negatively by participants and blamed for a decline in filial responsibility more broadly. Participants- accounts are explored for what they reflect about the symbolic meaning of filial responsibility in contemporary Canadian society, as well as for what they suggest about the process of its interpretation at the individual level.
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Kim, Soohyun. "The Effects of Paid Leave Policies on Work and Elder Care." Thesis, 2020. https://doi.org/10.7916/d8-7q77-6q71.
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This dissertation consists of three papers studying the relationship between paid leave policies and work and informal care outcomes among older workers. Paper one investigates whether different types of paid leave provided by employers are associated with the supply of elder care. Paper two examines the role of paid leave in determining labor market outcomes for older workers with a family member who experiences a health decline. Paper three analyzes the case in South Korea -- how leave policies influence labor market outcomes for older workers with a spouse who experiences a health decline.
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English, Christine. "Ontario’s Home First Approach, Care Transitions, and the Provision of Care: The Perspectives of Home First Clients and Their Family Caregivers." Thesis, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1974/8037.
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Home First is an Ontario transition management approach that attempts to reduce the pressure on hospital and Long Term Care (LTC) beds through early discharge planning, the provision of timely and appropriate home care, and the delay of LTC placement. The purpose of this qualitative descriptive study was to obtain descriptions from South Eastern Ontario Home First clients and their family caregivers of their experiences with and thoughts about care transitions, the provision of care, and the Home First approach. The goal was to enable insight into the Home First approach, care transitions, and the provision of care through access to the perspectives of study participants. Nine semi structured interviews (and one or more follow-up calls for each interview) with Home First clients discharged from hospitals in South East Ontario and their family caregivers were conducted and their content analyzed.
All participating Home First clients were pleased to be home from hospital and did not consider LTC placement a positive option. All had family involved with their care and used a mix of formal and informal services to meet their care needs. Four general themes were identified: (a) maintaining independence while responding (or not) to risks, (b) constraints on care provision, (c) communication is key, and (d) relationship matters.
Although all Home First clients participating in the study were discharged home successfully, a sense of partnership between health care providers, families, and clients was often lacking. The Home First approach may be successfully addressing hospital alternative level of care issues and getting people home where they want to be, but it is also putting increasing demands on formal and informal community caregivers. There is room for improvement in how well their needs and those of care recipients are being met. Health professionals and policy makers must ask caregivers and recipients about their concerns and provide them with appropriate resources and information if they want them to become true partners on the care team.Thesis (Master, Rehabilitation Science) -- Queen's University, 2013-05-23 16:10:53.323