“You Really Do Something Useful with Kids”: Mothering and Experienced Health and Illness in a Group of Elderly Swedish Women

Forssén, Annika; Carlstedt, Gunilla

doi:10.1080/07399330802269683

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“…IADL occupations within the maternal role were identified in 12 of the 14 articles. The focus in these studies was on the support older mothers give their adult children [ 32 , 34 , 36 , 38 , 39 , 40 , 41 , 42 , 43 ]. The IADL occupations included assisting children with cooking or shopping, running errands for the children, tending their home, providing them with financial support, and caring for the grandchildren.…”

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A Scoping Review of the Maternal Role at Older Age; Perceptions and Occupations

Maman

Rand

Bar

2022

IJERPH

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Motherhood is a meaningful life role among adult women. Occupations within the maternal role of younger mothers have been well documented, but less is known regarding the maternal-role at older age. This review aimed to describe the occupations, activities, and perceptions that older women ascribe to their maternal role. In the future, this information may promote health and wellbeing of older women. A systematic search of peer reviewed articles, that included healthy, community-dwelling mothers, 60 years of age or older, was conducted. Maternal-role occupations and perceptions of older mothers were identified and classified according to the Occupational Therapy Practice Framework (OTPF). Fourteen articles, representing 3102 older mothers, were included. The identified occupations and activities within the maternal role were from two categories: Instrumental Activities of Daily Living (IADL) (such as assistance with daily chores) and social participation (such as sharing holiday rituals). Three themes reflecting maternal-role perceptions were identified: providing support; relationship with children; and motherhood as a never-ending role. Maternal occupations were identified in only a few articles and from only two categories, IADL and social participation. These findings together with the perception that motherhood is a ‘never-ending’ role suggests that further research is needed to better characterize the maternal role of older women from an occupational perspective.

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A Scoping Review of the Maternal Role at Older Age; Perceptions and Occupations

Maman

Rand

Bar

2022

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“…Feelings of success at raising their children were essential to mothers’ self-esteem and well-being even in old age (Heidrich, 1998; Kasle, Wilhelm, & Reed, 2002). This also applied to the women involved in the present study (Forssén & Carlstedt, 2008).…”

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Lifelong Significance of Disempowering Experiences in Prenatal and Maternity Care

Forssén

2012

Qual Health Res

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In this article I show how the effects of harsh and humiliating treatment, experienced by a number of Swedish women in antenatal care and childbirth in the mid-20th Century, endured for the rest of their lives. This treatment was carried out by medical staff in conformity with a view of expectant mothers as irresponsible and ignorant and with the prevalent idea of "natural birth." These effects were findings in an interview investigation that, with a colleague, I conducted into paid and unpaid work and health of 20 women, seen in a lifetime perspective. Our biomedical way of understanding risks and complications during pregnancy and birthing was confronted with many participants' feelings of distress, guilt, and grief linked to their childbearing experience. I interpret the treatments as "violations of dignity" and as abuse. The consequences are similar to those following traumatic birth experiences described in today's literature.

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“…The importance of child-care support in the prevention of a mother's child care-related stress has been documented (Shaw et al, 2006). The primary caregivers of children are often mothers whose feelings of success or failure over bringing up a child affect their health (Forssén & Carlstedt, 2008). However, it has been reported that a high proportion of Japanese mothers was not confident of their child rearing (Goto et al, 2008) and that mothers with higher child-rearing anxiety had less social support in Japan (Arimoto & Murashima, 2007).…”

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“…, 2006). The primary caregivers of children are often mothers whose feelings of success or failure over bringing up a child affect their health (Forssén & Carlstedt, 2008). However, it has been reported that a high proportion of Japanese mothers was not confident of their child rearing (Goto et al.…”

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Influence of support by elderly persons on Japanese mothers' child care‐related stress

Kusano¹,

Ono²,

Hayakawa³

2010

Nursing & Health Sciences

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This study examined the influence of child-care support by elderly persons on mothers' child care-related stress in Japan. A cross-sectional study was conducted from February to April 2007 by using an anonymous questionnaire. This study focused on the "child-care salon" (hereafter referred to as "salon") as a type of parenting support activity by elderly persons in the community. For the analysis, 119 salon participants and a control group of 107 mothers who had not participated in a salon were recruited. As a result of a multiple regression analysis, participation or non-participation in the salon had no influence on the 'threat of loss of personal identity' stress, which was similar to a sense of social isolation because of child care. However, as a result of investigating the influence of the participation frequency on stress score for participants alone, mothers with less participation had a higher stress score than mothers with greater participation. That suggested the importance of intervention for a decrease of social isolation in mothers, especially in the initial stage of salon participation.

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“You Really Do Something Useful with Kids”: Mothering and Experienced Health and Illness in a Group of Elderly Swedish Women

Cited by 10 publications

References 27 publications

A Scoping Review of the Maternal Role at Older Age; Perceptions and Occupations

A Scoping Review of the Maternal Role at Older Age; Perceptions and Occupations

Lifelong Significance of Disempowering Experiences in Prenatal and Maternity Care

Influence of support by elderly persons on Japanese mothers' child care‐related stress

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