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| Balancing family life: how adult children link elder-care responsibility to service utilization | | Author(s) | Kathleen W Piercy, Rosemary Blieszner |
| Journal title | Journal of Applied Gerontology, vol 18, no 4, December 1999 |
| Pages | pp 440-459 |
| Keywords | Parents as carers ; The Family ; Usage [services] ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | The aim of this US study was to examine the links among adult children's perceived responsibility to care for elderly family members, other family needs, and their use of formal services. Caregivers in 15 families providing assistance to a parent or parent-in-law were interviewed about their responsibilities to their relatives and their reasons for using or not using community services to help with caregiving. The results indicated that perceived responsibility included responsibility both to the parent and to other family members. Reasons for using services included both care recipient considerations as well as caregivers' personal and marital concerns. Respondent families sought assistance from formal services in order to balance parental safety needs with caregiver needs for personal and marital fulfilment. When caregivers experienced physical or emotional limitations, they employed helpers. Implications for practitioners providing services to caregiving families are discussed. (AKM). |
| Accession Number | CPA-000221212 A |
| Classmark | P6:SR: SJ: QLD: 7T |
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