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Barriers to residential planning — perspectives from selected older parents caring for adult offspring with lifelong disabilities
Author(s)	Christine Joffres
Journal title	Canadian Journal on Aging, vol 21, no 2, Summer 2002
Pages	pp 303-311
Keywords	Parents as carers ; Physical disabilities ; Mental disorder ; Children [offspring] ; Qualitative Studies ; Canada.
Annotation	A typology is presented of older parents caring for adult offspring with lifelong disabilities, as well as barriers to residential planning from the perspectives of older parents caring for adult offspring with lifelong disabilities. Project participants included 54 older parents and one grandparent (all age 60+) in focus groups in six provinces across Canada. Transcripts were analysed using different analytical procedures, including pattern identification, clustering of conceptual groupings, identification of relationships between variables, constant comparisons, and theoretical memos. Older parents' reluctance to engage in the planning of future living options was found to be multi-factorial and linked to the macro- and micro-systems within which these families were embedded. (RH).
Accession Number	CPA-021101220 A
Classmark	P6:SR: BN: E: SS: 3DP: 7S
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