Variations in Preferred Care Alternatives for the Elderly: Family versus Nonfamily Sources

Sanders, Lawrence; Seelbach, Wayne C.

doi:10.2307/584041

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“…The importance of family caregiving has been widely documented (Biegel & Blum, 1990;Heinemann, 1983;Sanders & Seelbach, 1981;Stoller & Earl, 1983), with considerable attention directed toward the stress and burden adult daughters may experience as caregivers to aging parents (Brody, 1985;Cantor, 1983;Montgomery, Gonyea, & Hooyman, 1985;Scharlach, 1987). While it has been suggested that parent-care may represent normative stress for adult children (Brody, 1985), little attention has been given to how these adult children anticipate their future caregiving roles.…”

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Role of siblings in adult daughters' anticipation of caregiving

Karasik

Conway-Turner

1995

J Adult Dev

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Despite extensive research regarding adult daughters'experiences as caregivers to aging parents, little attention has been paid to how adult daughters anticipate future caregiving roles. The current study examines the impact of sibling networks on the caregiving anticipation of 103 adult daughters. Factors influencing the expectation and amount of support adult daughters anticipate include daughters' birth order and proximity to their mothers. Characteristics of the sibling networks, including percentage of sisters within the family, are also important to care anticipation.

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