Grandmothers' Use of Routines to Manage Custodial Care of Young Children

Marken, Dory M.; Pierce, Doris; Baltisberger, Julie A.

doi:10.3109/02703181.2010.535119

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“…It is not clear if this finding reflects the effects of independent caregiving responsibilities, normative aging effects, or a combination of these or other factors. Previous studies have reported that grandparent caregivers experience restrictions in their daily routine functioning [ 49 ], but greater efforts are needed to assess how impaired functioning affects personal and family caregiving responsibilities among solo grandparents since family demands rest largely with them. For example, older grandchildren may take an active role in carrying out some of the physical tasks to relieve activity burdens for the grandparents.…”

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Health Characteristics of Solo Grandparent Caregivers and Single Parents: A Comparative Profile Using the Behavior Risk Factor Surveillance Survey

Whitley

Fuller‐Thomson

Brennenstuhl

2015

Current Gerontology and Geriatrics Research

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Objectives. To describe the health characteristics of solo grandparents raising grandchildren compared with single parents. Methods. Using the 2012 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, respondents identified as a single grandparent raising a grandchild were categorized as a solo grandparent; grandparent responses were compared with single parents. Descriptive analysis compared health characteristics of 925 solo grandparents with 7,786 single parents. Results. Compared to single parents, grandparents have a higher prevalence of physical health problems (e.g., arthritis). Both parent groups have a high prevalence of lifetime depression. A larger share of grandparents actively smoke and did no recreational physical exercise in the last month. However, grandparents appear to have better access to health services in comparison with single parents. Conclusion. Solo grandparents may be at risk for diminished physical capacity and heightened prevalence of depression. Health professionals can be an important resource to increase grandparents' physical and emotional capacities.

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Health Characteristics of Solo Grandparent Caregivers and Single Parents: A Comparative Profile Using the Behavior Risk Factor Surveillance Survey

Whitley

Fuller‐Thomson

Brennenstuhl

2015

Current Gerontology and Geriatrics Research

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“…For example, Ruiz's study (2008) used focus groups [53], while Dolbin-MacNab et al's study (2021) [54] and Lee et al's study (2015) [55] used interviews. Marken et al's study (2010) utilized both interviews and videos [56], three studies combined focus groups and interviews [57][58][59], and two studies used alternative data collection methods such as the photovoice methodology [60] and interaction reports from help lines [61]. All the three mixed method articles [62][63][64] used descriptive data analysis to describe the sample, and qualitative data analysis to explore the factors contributing to kinship caregivers' resilience.…”

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“…Six studies conducted their research in other countries, such as Spain [46,59], Thailand [44], Scotland [61], and Australia [64]. The majority of samples in the identified studies consisted of grandparents (n = 20; 80%), and nine of these studies specifically focused on grandmothers or great grandmothers [44,45,49,[51][52][53][54]56,63]. The remaining five studies included all types of kinship caregivers in their samples [41,42,50,59,61].…”

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Strength and Resilience for Kinship Caregivers Raising Children: A Scoping Review

Wu,

Xu,

Pei

et al. 2023

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Kinship care is a preferred living arrangement for children when they have to separate from their birth parents due to various reasons. Although kinship care emphasized family and cultural value of connection, kinship families haven been considered as a vulnerable population since they often face myriad and longstanding challenges on both caregivers and child levels. Previous studies have described the challenges and needs that kinship families had, but there has been a continued call for shifting the paradigm from a problem-focused approach to a strengths-focused perspective. After searching in seven research databases, this scoping review identified 25 studies that examined resilience factors that were related to kinship caregivers raising their relative’s child/ren. Both qualitative and quantitative studies were included in this review. The findings showed that the resilience factors are involved with the following five aspects: caregiver characteristics, motivation, stress coping, caregiver’s family, and support. Through summarizing and discussing the resilience factors, this review calls for attention to be paid to the strengths of kinship families. This finding encourages future social work practitioners and researchers to build resilience in kinship families so that positive outcomes for kinship families can be promoted.

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“…Hence, extending on the understanding that there are diverse ways to 'do' the same parenting occupation, neutral silhouettes are used (Figure 4) to reflect the diversity among parents, children, and their situations. For example, parents who have 'substantial physical limitations in [their] ability to give direct hands-on care' (Farber, 2004, p. 194) compensated by managing and directing care through assistants, or choosing to engage in parent-child activities that suit their abilities (Poole et al, 2018); custodial grandmothers adopted less physically-demanding means of caring and playing with young children to compensate for physical limitations (Marken et al, 2010); and mothers in prison provided emotional support to their children through letters (Jose-Kampfner, 2004). Thus, parents 'do' parenting in differently based on their abilities and contexts.…”

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The parenting occupations and purposes conceptual framework: A scoping review of ‘doing’ parenting

Lim

Honey

McGrath

2021

Aus Occup Therapy J

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Introduction: Parenting is a valued, common and challenging adult role.Many parents, including some living with disability or difficult social circumstances, experience barriers to fulfilling their parenting roles. Yet, occupational therapy involvement in parenting is rarely documented. Current understandings about 'doing' parenting lack cohesion and are dispersed in occupational therapy literature. This study aims to map and synthesise occupational therapy literature on 'doing' parenting to describe the state of the existing knowledge base, and develop a conceptual framework of parenting occupations as portrayed in occupational therapy literature. Methods: A scoping review was conducted. Medline, EMBASE, CINAHL, PsycINFO, Scopus, and Web of Science were searched on 28 October 2019 and updated on 18 February 2021. Journal articles and book chapters were screened for eligibility. Included texts' publication characteristics, methodological characteristics, and areas of focus were summarised. Interpretive content analysis was conducted. Results: From 5945 unique records, 105 texts were included. These discussed general parenting, parents with disabilities, and parenting in challenging social situations. Most texts focussed on mothers caring for young children in Western cultural contexts. The analysis culminated in the development of a conceptual framework: the Parenting Occupations and Purposes (POP) Framework. This comprises 10 interrelated areas of parenting occupations, which are performed for the purposes of addressing the child's basic, developmental and social needs. Parenting occupations were also found to be influenced by additional, underlying occupations that build parenting capacity -Continuous Parental Development (CPD) occupations. Conclusion: These findings provide an overview of current occupational therapy conceptualisations of parenting. Unlike most of the existing literature on parenting, the POP Framework is parent-centric rather than child-centric. More research on parenting occupations is needed, especially with more diverse representation (fathers, ages of children, parental disability and sociocultural background). Further research is required to examine the POP

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Grandmothers' Use of Routines to Manage Custodial Care of Young Children

Cited by 5 publications

References 27 publications

Health Characteristics of Solo Grandparent Caregivers and Single Parents: A Comparative Profile Using the Behavior Risk Factor Surveillance Survey

Health Characteristics of Solo Grandparent Caregivers and Single Parents: A Comparative Profile Using the Behavior Risk Factor Surveillance Survey

Strength and Resilience for Kinship Caregivers Raising Children: A Scoping Review

The parenting occupations and purposes conceptual framework: A scoping review of ‘doing’ parenting

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