Women in the Middle

Their Parent-Care Years

Elaine M. Brody (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

400 Seiten

2003 | 2nd New edition
Springer Publishing Co Inc (Verlag)
9780826163813 (ISBN)

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Describes and discusses the caregiving women's subjective feelings, experiences, and problems, and the effects on their mental and physical well-being, life styles, family relationships, and vocational activities.

Women in the Middlewas so-named because daughters, who are the main caregivers to elderly disabled parents, most often in their middle years, are caught in the middle of multiple competing demands on their time and energy. Since the first edition, women's responsibilities and the pressures they have experienced have increased and intensified. Dr. Brody revisits this phenomenon in this new, updated edition of her ground-breaking work.

Women in the Middle, 2/e, describes and discusses the caregiving women's subjective feelings, experiences, and problems, and the effects on their mental and physical well-being, life styles, family relationships, and vocational activities. These case studies and narratives present an insider's view of the harsh and sometimes joyful experience of caregiving.

Special attention is given to the changing face of social, economic, and environmental conditions, as well as the diversity of the caregiver, in which caregiving, in which caregiving takes place.

Elaine M. Brody, MSW, DSc (Hon), was, for many years, Director of the Department of Human Resources and Associate Director of Research at the Philadelphia Geriatric Center. She also was Clinical Professor of Psychiatry in the Department of Psychiatry at the Medical College of Pennsylvania and Adjunct Associate Professor of Social Work in Psychiatry in the School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. Mrs. Brody is a past President of The Gerontological Society of America (1980).

Foreword, B.D Lebowitz
Introduction
Part I: Background
Women in the Middle: How it Happened
Scope of Parent Care
Effects of Caregiving
Values About Women's Roles and Care of the Aged

Part II: Subjective Experiences
Introduction
On Becoming the Primary Care giver: The Caregiving Daughters and Their Siblings
Six Major Subjective Themes and A Variation

Part III: Diversity Among Caregivers
Diversity in Age and Stages
Diversity in Marital Status: Introduction and a Research Survey
Married Daughters and Their Husbands and Children: 10 Case Histories and a Comment
Daughters Without Partners
Caregiving Daughters-in-Law (The Proxy Primaries): 7 Case Histories and a Comment
Commentary on Marital Status and Parent Care
Diversity in Work Status
Ethnic and Racial Diversity, A.R. Saperstein

Part IV: Services and Living Arrangements for Older People
Effects on Women in the Middle
Nursing Home Placement: A Painful Decision
Community Services and Residential Settings, A.R. Saperstein

Part V: Unfinished Business
Unfinished Business on the Parent-Care Agenda

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Erscheint lt. Verlag	30.11.2003
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	680 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Sozialpädagogik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
ISBN-13	9780826163813 / 9780826163813
Zustand	Neuware