Help‐seeking by older husbands caring for wives with dementia

Brown, Janet Witucki; Chen, Shu Li; Mitchell, Carolyn B.; Province, Amy

doi:10.1111/j.1365-2648.2007.04290.x

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“…From interviews with caregiving husbands, Brown et al (2007) formulated a theory of: Doing the best I can from the stories of the husbands who were doing the best they could to get help and manage the daily care of their wives. Brown et al (2007) wrote that whether the husbands provided the direct care themselves or let other family members assume responsibility or obtained help from formal help services, all the husbands were very devoted to their wives. Even if these husbands felt some burden, most of them felt that caregiving was something they were meant to do and they were not overwhelmed by the care burden.…”

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“…Brown et al 2007;Eriksson et al 2013) or the experience of being lesbian and providing care to a person with dementia (cf. Price 2011).…”

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“…Focusing on husbands providing care for a wife with dementia, findings suggest (cf. Brown et al 2007) that men experience some burden in the caregiving responsibility but they are not overwhelmed by it. Caregiving wives described the experience of the caregiving situation as giving a feeling of being grateful but also a sense of burden (cf.…”

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“…This section is based on those articles. Townsend et al (1989) The theory of doing the best I can: Brown et al (2007) Stress process model: Pearlin et al (1990) …”

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Men do care! : A gender-aware and masculinity-informed contribution to caregiving scholarship

Wallroth

2016

Linköping Studies in Arts and Sciences

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In caregiving literature, it is often the female gender that has been the focus of attention, and in particular women's unpaid labor. Studies also tend to make comparisons between men's and women's caregiving, using men's caregiving experiences to show not only that women face greater burdens, but also that men's needs can be disregarded. This means that while gender analyses are not uncommon in the caregiving literature, gender tends to be equated with womanhood. The research problem that this dissertation addresses is therefore the gender bias that characterizes caregiving scholarship at present and the fact that this bias is impeding us from moving the debates on care and caregiving forward. The aim of the dissertation is twofold. Firstly, it attempts to contribute to the rectification of the gender bias in question by focusing on men's caregiving and answering the following research questions: What motivates men to provide care for their elderly parents? How do adult sons experience caregiving? What do adult sons think that care and caregiving are, i.e. what are their perspectives on care? Secondly, this dissertation also aims to explore whether a gender-aware and masculinity-informed perspective can be used to enhance our understanding of caregiving. Thus, through a phenomenological analysis of interviews with 19 caregiving adult sons and sons-in-law, this dissertation discusses how motives, experiences and perspectives, which have so far been interpreted as unique to women, are also matters that men talk about and consider important in caregiving. The dissertation argues therefore that much could be gained if we were to rectify the gender bias that characterizes the literature on family caregiving and explore caregiving men in the genderaware and masculinity-informed way that is lacking in this literature at present. Inspired by the debate within studies of masculinity, the dissertation argues that within the debate on care there is a hegemony of care which has so far tended to exclude men's perspectives on caregiving because literature on family caregiving has regarded women as the ideal caregivers. This dissertation shows that a gender-aware and masculinity-informed perspective on care can increase our understanding of family caregiving and contribute to the rectification of the gender bias that care research suffers from. Against this backdrop, it is proposed that caregiving men should not solely be regarded as empirically interesting. This is because they are an unexploited and theoretically profuse source of information about caregiving.

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“…Brown et al 2007;Eriksson et al 2013) or the experience of being lesbian and providing care to a person with dementia (cf. Price 2011).…”

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Section: A Gendered Lens On the Common Denominators Of Research On Camentioning

confidence: 99%

“…This section is based on those articles. Townsend et al (1989) The theory of doing the best I can: Brown et al (2007) Stress process model: Pearlin et al (1990) …”

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2016

Linköping Studies in Arts and Sciences

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“…Most partners or adult children providing long-term support for someone living with dementia will experience relational and role change (Dunham & Cannon, 2008;Boylestein & Hayes, 2012;Toepfer et al, 2014) whereby they will eventually see themselves as a carer or caregiver -and these dynamics are often experienced differently for women and men (Carter et al, 2012;Boylestein & Hayes, 2012;Baker & Robertson, 2008;Friedmann & Buckwalter, 2014;Eriksson et al, 2013;Hayes et al, 2010;Russell, 2007;Calasanti & King, 2007;Dunkle et al, 2014). While husbands appeared to find it more challenging to adapt to taking on new daily household tasks, such as taking on the role of being the food provider (Russell, 2007;Boyle, 2013;Fjellström et al, 2010), adding to their stress as a caregiver, they were more likely to ask for help to perform these tasks (Sun et al, 2008), and have more informal help (Brown et al, 2007;Forbes et al, 2008). Women were reported to be more prepared to take on additional gendered tasks, and it was often viewed as a gradual extension of their existing work within their household (Calasanti & Bowen, 2006).…”

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The impact of dementia on women internationally: An integrative review

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Peel

2016

Health Care for Women International

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Women are disproportionately affected by dementia, both in terms of developing dementia and becoming caregivers. We conducted an integrative review of English language literature of the issues affecting women in relation to dementia from an international perspective. The majority of relevant studies were conducted in high income countries, and none were from low-income countries. The effects of caregiving on health, wellbeing and finances are greater for women; issues facing women, particularly in low and middle-income countries need to be better understood.Research should focus on building resilience to help people adjust and cope long term.Dementia is a global public health issue that disproportionately affects women, either through developing the condition themselves, or as a carer for someone with dementia. The effects on women of living with or caring for someone with dementia from an international perspective needs to be more fully understood. In our review of the published literature, we explore the impact of dementia on changing roles, identity, wellbeing and finances for women in both high-income and low-and middle income countries. An improved understanding of these factors can support research, and policy developments, that address the issues specifically relevant to women.As age is the greatest risk factor for dementia, and women have a greater life expectancy worldwide than men, a larger number of people with dementia are women (Alzheimer's Association, 2014).There are also clinical differences between genders in disease risk and severity, especially in relation to dementia and cognition (Carter et al., 2012). There is a significant association between age, gender, and dementia in many areas of the world, with women showing a higher prevalence rate for dementia than men (Bamford, 2011;Takeda et al., 2011; Alzheimer's Disease International, 2015) expectation that women will assume caregiving roles (Godfrey & Warshaw, 2009;Lantz, 2009;Gibbons et al., 2014). In many studies of dementia caregivers, all or most participants are women, reflecting the disproportionate extent to which women are relied upon as carers, although few reports focus on gender specifically (Robinson et al., 2014). Therefore the assumption that women provide informal care to people with dementia is embedded (often implicitly) in much of the existing research.The financial impact of providing dementia care on family caregivers is substantial; caregivers in the United States reported that they were reluctant to take time off work to provide care, or took on additional work to cover caregiving costs, which had increased because of the recent economic downturn (Evercare, 2009). Women may also have the responsibility of caring for young children alongside caring for a parent with dementia -referred to as the 'sandwich generation' (Solberg et 3 al., 2014). Despite this (often dual) caring responsibility, families often prefer , for a variety of cultural, obligational and practical reasons to continue to provide care at ho...

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Current awareness in geriatric psychiatry

2008

Int J Geriat Psychiatry

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In order to keep subscribers up‐to‐date with the latest developments in their field, John Wiley & Sons are providing a current awareness service in each issue of the journal. The bibliography contains newly published material in the field of geriatric psychiatry. Each bibliography is divided into 9 sections: 1 Reviews; 2 General; 3 Assessment; 4 Epidemiology; 5 Therapy; 6 Care; 7 Dementia; 8 Depression; 9 Psychology. Within each section, articles are listed in alphabetical order with respect to author. If, in the preceding period, no publications are located relevant to any one of these headings, that section will be omitted

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Help‐seeking by older husbands caring for wives with dementia

Cited by 57 publications

References 32 publications

Men do care! : A gender-aware and masculinity-informed contribution to caregiving scholarship

Men do care! : A gender-aware and masculinity-informed contribution to caregiving scholarship

The impact of dementia on women internationally: An integrative review

Current awareness in geriatric psychiatry

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