Caring for Elderly Parents : Juggling Work, Family, and Caregiving in Middle and Working Class Families
Deborah M. Merrill
Bok Engelsk 1997 · Electronic books.
| Utgitt | Santa Barbara : : ABC-CLIO, , 1997.
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (244 p.)
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| Opplysninger | Description based upon print version of record.. - Contents; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 Illustrations of Caregiving; Chapter 3 Becoming the Caregiver for a Frail Parent: Processes and Pathways; Chapter 4 Siblings and the Division of Labor: Conflict and Cooperation; Chapter 5 The Race from Home to the Office: Managing Work and Caregiving; Chapter 6 Stress and Implications for Family Life; Chapter 7 Daughters-in-Law as Caregivers; Chapter 8 The Caregiving Career; Chapter 9 Just Plain Folk: Class, Ethnicity, and Gender; Chapter 10 Policy Implications; Chapter 11 Conclusions; Appendix: Methodology; Bibliography; Index. - Based on open-ended interviews with adult children and children-in-law, this book documents how plain folk from the working and middle classes manage to provide care for their frail, elderly parents while simultaneously meeting the obligations of their jobs and their own immediate families.||Adult children who care for elderly parents are pressured daily trying to juggle the responsibilities of work, family, and caregiving. Deborah Merrill shows how plain folk (as one caregiver termed herself) from the working and lower middle classes manage to provide care for their frail, elderly parents whi
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| ISBN | 0865692696
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