Author: Indy Leigh SavagePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Adult children
Languages : en
Pages : 118
Book Description
Adult Children Caregivers' Attitudes Toward Their Cognitively Or Physically Impaired Elderly Parents
Author: Indy Leigh SavagePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Adult children
Languages : en
Pages : 118
Book Description
Adult Children as Caregivers to Elderly Parents
Author: Amy HorowitzPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Adult children
Languages : en
Pages : 442
Book Description
Families Caring for an Aging America
Author: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and MedicinePublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309448093
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 367
Book Description
Family caregiving affects millions of Americans every day, in all walks of life. At least 17.7 million individuals in the United States are caregivers of an older adult with a health or functional limitation. The nation's family caregivers provide the lion's share of long-term care for our older adult population. They are also central to older adults' access to and receipt of health care and community-based social services. Yet the need to recognize and support caregivers is among the least appreciated challenges facing the aging U.S. population. Families Caring for an Aging America examines the prevalence and nature of family caregiving of older adults and the available evidence on the effectiveness of programs, supports, and other interventions designed to support family caregivers. This report also assesses and recommends policies to address the needs of family caregivers and to minimize the barriers that they encounter in trying to meet the needs of older adults.
The Sandwich Generation
Author: Charles R. RootsPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000525627
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 86
Book Description
First published in 1998. The purpose of this book is to consider all aspects of having to care for elderly parents, while taking care of children still at home. Most of us have a general idea of how to raise children in the home, but just how do you care for an elderly parent? The focus is on the family, and the responsibilities that are based on scripture, society, and family upbringing. The thrust of this book is to ferret out the real issues of being a parent to both your children and your parent(s).
Attitudes of Adult Children Towards Their Elderly Parents
Author: Ester S. BaukhagesCaring for Imparied, Elderly Parents
Author: Erin F. Cecil-PigoThe Elderly Caregiver
Author: Karen A. RobertoPublisher: SAGE
ISBN: 0803950217
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
Bringing together the empirical work of researchers from a variety of disciplines, this volume provides insight into the physical, psychological and social needs of the growing number of elderly people caring for adults with developmental disabilities. Issues explored include: the needs of elderly parents caring for adult offspring with learning difficulties; changes in care-giving activities; the increasing burden of care-giving; the ordeal of planning future out-of-home placement; and the needs of care-givers of ageing adults with Down's syndrome and Alzheimer's disease. A concluding chapter draws together implications for future directions in practice, policy and research.
Adult Children and Aging Parents
Author: Jane E. MyersPublisher: Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company
ISBN:
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
This book was developed to assist counselors and other caregivers in working with adult children and their aging parents. The first chapter addresses normative developmental issues in later life. This includes the demography of aging, theories of aging, and attitudes toward older persons, along with suggestions for identifying at-risk populations, implications for counselors, and criteria for choosing assessment instruments for older persons. The second chapter addresses several issues of aging, including depression, suicide, drug and alcohol abuse, and organic brain diseases, that are critical for counselors. The third chapter examines psychosocial concerns of caregivers and adult children as well as family relationships and patterns in later life: aging and loss, the retirement transition, and the transition to grandparenthood. The fourth chapter deals with the possible needs of both older persons and adult children in relation to four family stress situations: caregiving, institutionalization, elder abuse, and death and dying. The final chapter provides general information useful to counselors working with adult children and aging parents. The focus is on building and maintaining healthy, positive relationships. Several counseling methods are described,including bibliotherapy, life review, genograms, and early recollections. An annotated list of assessment instruments is appended, along with an extensive list of references. (TE)
Confused Minds, Burdened Families
Author: Parenting Matters
Author: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and MedicinePublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309388570
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 525
Book Description
Decades of research have demonstrated that the parent-child dyad and the environment of the familyâ€"which includes all primary caregiversâ€"are at the foundation of children's well- being and healthy development. From birth, children are learning and rely on parents and the other caregivers in their lives to protect and care for them. The impact of parents may never be greater than during the earliest years of life, when a child's brain is rapidly developing and when nearly all of her or his experiences are created and shaped by parents and the family environment. Parents help children build and refine their knowledge and skills, charting a trajectory for their health and well-being during childhood and beyond. The experience of parenting also impacts parents themselves. For instance, parenting can enrich and give focus to parents' lives; generate stress or calm; and create any number of emotions, including feelings of happiness, sadness, fulfillment, and anger. Parenting of young children today takes place in the context of significant ongoing developments. These include: a rapidly growing body of science on early childhood, increases in funding for programs and services for families, changing demographics of the U.S. population, and greater diversity of family structure. Additionally, parenting is increasingly being shaped by technology and increased access to information about parenting. Parenting Matters identifies parenting knowledge, attitudes, and practices associated with positive developmental outcomes in children ages 0-8; universal/preventive and targeted strategies used in a variety of settings that have been effective with parents of young children and that support the identified knowledge, attitudes, and practices; and barriers to and facilitators for parents' use of practices that lead to healthy child outcomes as well as their participation in effective programs and services. This report makes recommendations directed at an array of stakeholders, for promoting the wide-scale adoption of effective programs and services for parents and on areas that warrant further research to inform policy and practice. It is meant to serve as a roadmap for the future of parenting policy, research, and practice in the United States.