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Aging mothers and aging daughters — life-long caring and intellectual disability
Author(s)	Daniela Stehlik
Journal title	Journal of Women & Aging, vol 12, nos 1/2, 2000
Pages	pp 169-188
Source	http://www.tandfonline.com
Keywords	Women as carers ; Mother ; Mental disorder ; Daughters ; Family relationships ; Australia.
Annotation	While ageing and caring are well-discussed in academic literature, the association between ageing, caring and intellectual disability is less well documented. This paper draws on a recently completed Australian study which focuses on such mother/daughter relationships whose narratives form the framework that argues for a re-imagining of the concept of care for older people with intellectual disability. The paper uses a specifically genealogical approach to describe how powerful discourses at the time of a daughter's birth (1940s and 1950s) - associated with eugenics, institutional care and motherhood - frame the way in which ageing mothers are now contemplating the future care for their adult (and also ageing) daughters. (KJ/RH).
Accession Number	CPA-001016245 A
Classmark	P6:SH: SRM: E: SSH: DS:SJ: 7YA
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