Challenges of Aging on U.S. Families : Policy and Practice Implications

ISBN-13: 9780789028761 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 238 str.

Richard K. Caputo

Opis

The coming boom in the population of the aging will impact families at several levels. Challenges of Aging on U.S. Families: Policy and Practice Implications explores this trend, presenting the latest original research on the changing roles of caregivers along with the economic and emotional effects on the family unit. Respected authorities discuss in detail long-term care and the standard of living of families, with a focus on the effects of changing family structures on families themselves and society at large. Detailed tables provide clarity of thought while comprehensive bibliographies offer further opportunity for study.

Spis treści

• General Editors’ Comment
  
• Editor’s Introduction: Challenges of Aging on U.S. Families: Policy and Practice Implications (Richard K. Caputo)
  
• The Intersection of Economic and Family Status in Late Life: Implications for the Future (Elizabeth A. Kutza)
  
• When Do Couples Expand Their ADL Caregiver Network Beyond the Marital Dyad? (Sheila Feld, Ruth E. Dunkle, and Tracy Schroepfer)
  
• Family-Based Intervention in Residential Long-Term Care (Joseph E. Gaugler, Keith A. Anderson, and Heidi H. Holmes)
  
• Relationship Quality with Parent, Daughter Role Salience, and Self-Esteem of Daughter Caregivers (Lydia Wailing Li and Marsha Mailick Seltzer)
  
• Paying Family Caregivers: An Effective Policy Option in the Arkansas Cash and Counseling Demonstration and Evaluation (Lori Simon-Rusinowitz, Kevin J. Mahoney, Dawn M. Loughlin, and Michele DeBarthe Sadler)
  
• Inheritance and Intergenerational Transmission of Parental Care (Richard K. Caputo)
  
• Urban and Rural African American Female Caregivers’ Family Reunion Participation (Letha A. Chadiha, Julie Miller-Cribbs, Jane Rafferty, Portia Adams, Robert Pierce, and Swapna Kommidi)
  
• Grandparents Raising Their Grandchildren (Bert Hayslip Jr. and Patricia L. Kaminski)
  
• Caregiver Stress Among Grandparents Raising Grandchildren: The Functional Role of Social Support (Laura Landry-Meyer, Jean M. Gerard, and Jacqueline R. Guzell)
  
• Skipped Generation Families: Sources of Psychological Distress Among Grandmothers of
  Grandchildren Who Live in Homes Where Neither Parent Is Present (Terry L. Mills, Zenta Gomez-Smith, and Jessica M. De Leon)
  
• Index
  
• Reference Notes Included
  

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