Grandparent–Grandchild Relationships: A Proposed Mutuality Model With a Focus on Young Children and Adolescents

Kahana, Eva; Kahana, Boaz; Goler, Timothy; Kahana, Jeffrey

doi:10.1891/9780826149855.0004

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“…Being unprepared for increasing care needs and disability related limitations can create confusion and uncertainty and may lead to lack of personal control. An important preventive adaptation relates to planning ahead for increased care needs that are likely to arise among older persons living with disabilities (Kahana, Kahana, Bhatta, et al, 2019; Pinquart & Sorensen, 2002). Such future care planning (FCP) may involve marshaling support through conversations with family members, friends, and health care providers about anticipated resource availability, should care needs increase.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Help seeking from grandchildren or other young relatives can open up pathways to independence through technology. The “Mutuality Model of Grandparent–Grandchild relationships” (Kahana, Kahana, Kahana, & Goler, 2019) proposes that grandparents with disabilities seek accommodations from their own families by turning to adolescent and young adult grandchildren who can serve as mentors for skills needed for using technology. Adult children may be less likely to find time, given work and family obligations to provide such “nonessential” services.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Meeting Challenges of Late Life Disability Proactively

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Innovation in Aging

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Discussions of disability in the gerontological and the disability studies literatures have seldom considered unique perspectives and needs of older adults. Disability has often been stigmatized and viewed as antithetical to successful aging. We call for expansion of prevailing paradigms of disability to address the resilience and continuing human potential of older adults living with disabilities. In addition to recognizing the environmental context of disability, we propose greater attention to adaptive potential of disabled older adults. We discuss 6 types of proactive adaptations that can contribute to empowerment, meaning, enhanced quality of life and psychological well-being among persons living with late-life onset disabilities. These include: (a) helping others, (b) planning for future care, (c) marshaling intergenerational support, (d) self-advocacy for responsive health care, (e) making environmental modifications to improve safety and comfort of the home, and (f) finding strength in spiritual pursuits. Enacting proactive adaptations can contribute to resilience in facing late life impairments and functional limitations. Such efforts can complement utilization of services and obtaining accommodations. Maintaining life satisfaction among older adults living with disabilities also involves focus on transcendent personal goals and acceptance of an altered self. We note how a more integrative view of medical and social dimensions of disability, infused with concepts of human agency, contributes to rapprochement between alternative disciplinary orientations to late life disability. Without negating society’s important responsibilities for accommodating to needs of older adults living with disability, we reaffirm their potential for greater control and self-determination through proactive adaptations.

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confidence: 99%

Section: Examples Of Resilient Adaptations To Living With Disabilitiesmentioning

confidence: 99%