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| Two transitions in daughters' caregiving careers | | Author(s) | M Powell Lawton, Miriam Moss, Christine Hoffman |
| Journal title | The Gerontologist, vol 40, no 4, August 2000 |
| Pages | pp 437-448 |
| Keywords | Daughters as carers ; Relations by marriage ; Women as carers ; Transitional phase ; Informal care ; Stress ; Longitudinal surveys ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | Daughters and daughters-in-law of widowed parents or parents-in-law were studied longitudinally, and the data were analysed to determine how two transitions in caregiving status affected the women of the younger generation. One transition compared 33 non-caregivers who had become caregivers 1 year later with 56 continuing "non-caregivers" and 78 veteran continuing caregivers over the same period. The transition to caregiving was marked by a decrease in the care receiver's competence and an increase in the amount of care received, but caregiving entrants' quality of life did not change significantly over 1 year, as compared with either continuing non-caregivers or veteran caregivers. Although longitudinal study shows little positive evidence for the wear-and-tear model of caregiving, methodological improvements are needed before discarding the hypothesis that caregiving erodes mental health. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-001102215 A |
| Classmark | P6:SSH: SWH: P6:SH: 4MT: P6: QNH: 3J: 7T |
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