Family support for individual homeless adults

Polgar, Michael; North, Carol S.; Pollio, David E.

doi:10.1179/sdh.2006.15.4.273

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“…If they agreed, we sent consent forms and a packet of information about the study out to them. We obtained written informed consent from all study participants (Polgar, Pollio, and North 2006).…”

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“…After obtaining informed consent from a person with a homeless relative, we scheduled a structured telephone interview with one of our carefully prepared graduate students. In total, we collected data from 118 respondents (Polgar, Pollio, and North 2006). Below we describe the key measures on the questionnaire, specifically designed to understand the experiences of people with a homeless relative.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…People who are homeless may receive assistance from their housed relatives at different points in time, benefitting from family support before, during, and after a homeless episode. Consequently, these relatives may experience significant stress and require social support themselves (Polgar, Pollio, and North 2006). Family caregivers experience both stress and satisfaction, reporting feelings of both strain and gain (Miller 1998).…”

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“…People who become homeless often count on others for social support (Dordick 1997). Support is provided by both formal social services (Taylor, Yoon, and Hochron 1996) and informal sources like family and friends (Polgar, Pollio, and North 2006).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…People who provide help for homelessness, particularly people with homeless relatives and homeless service providers, face sustained and sometimes difficult challenges, much like caregivers for elders and other dependent populations (Spillman and Pezzin 2000). As a result, research shows that people with homeless relatives can become burdened and sometimes overwhelmed by a variety of stressful situations in their relationships with people who are homeless (Polgar, Pollio, and North 2006). Stress on family caregivers, like work-related stress on health and social service providers, can become a n even more challenging concern when it involves people with multiple problems.…”

Section: Introduction: Homelessness and Disabilitymentioning

confidence: 99%

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Families Help Homeless and Disabled Relatives Providing Support is More Stressful with “Double Troubles”

Polgar

2011

Journal of Applied Social Science

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People provide help and support to disabled homeless relatives as part of a system of care for homeless adults. This family support is stronger, and stress on relatives is greater, when people who are homeless experience difficulties or disorders related to a disability. Research analyzes data from a study of people with homeless relatives.1 Results show that people spend more time and money caring for a homeless relative who is disabled. Results also show that helping a relative living with a disability is associated with significantly more stress on family caregivers. This relationship varies somewhat depending on the nature of the disability. Since research shows that family caregiving supplements community services for homeless adults, and since results support hypotheses to show how family support is more stressful in the context of disability, social service systems can help by encouraging and providing community support for both disabled homeless adults and for their family caregivers.

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Section: Methodsmentioning

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Section: Family Support For Homeless Relativesmentioning

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Section: Introduction: Homelessness and Disabilitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introduction: Homelessness and Disabilitymentioning

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Families Help Homeless and Disabled Relatives Providing Support is More Stressful with “Double Troubles”

Polgar

2011

Journal of Applied Social Science

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The Homeless

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Parenting adults who become homeless: Variations in stress and social support.

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Pollio

2009

American Journal of Orthopsychiatry

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This article focuses on the stressors of parenting an adult child who experiences homelessness. Parents whose adult children become homeless may provide support to this child, but they may also subsequently experience stress and require social support themselves. Findings from this study support the hypothesis that parents who spend more time or money helping their homeless adult offspring experience higher levels of stress. Results also show higher levels of stress among parents who helped with activities of daily living and among parents who worked to prevent harm involving their adult homeless offspring. Among 37 respondents, a majority of whom were African American mothers parenting homeless sons, parents who engaged in activities to prevent harm and parents who experienced stress from harm prevention received more extensive social support. Health and social service providers should recognize and respond to the financial, emotional, and temporal burdens of parenting an adult who becomes homeless. Service providers can both support people who become homeless and reinforce larger family systems, particularly in circumstances that involve more extensive parental support or more harmful situations.

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Family support for individual homeless adults

Cited by 7 publications

References 29 publications

Families Help Homeless and Disabled Relatives Providing Support is More Stressful with “Double Troubles”

Families Help Homeless and Disabled Relatives Providing Support is More Stressful with “Double Troubles”

The Homeless

Parenting adults who become homeless: Variations in stress and social support.

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