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Partner care at the end-of-life
— identity, language and characteristics | | Author(s) | Anne Corden, Michael Hirst |
| Journal title | Ageing and Society, vol 31, part 2,, February 2011 |
| Pages | pp 217-242 |
| Source | http://www.journals.cambridge.org/aso |
| Keywords | Spouses as carers ; Chronic illness ; Terminal care ; Terminal illness ; Death ; Attitude. |
| Annotation | In this paper the authors present data from research on couples where one partner died, drawing on a study of the financial implications of a partner's death. Information was gathered from a study based on the British Household Panel Survey of over 750 couples separated by death, and from interviews with 44 recently bereaved women and men from all age groups. The article describes the findings on adopting an identity of caregiving, people's characteristics and circumstances, health care needs, service contacts, and trends over time, and discusses models showing a range of factors and their success in predicting whether people described themselves as providing care. The study findings showed that carer self-identification was influenced by the partner's health care needs and service contacts, including receipt of welfare benefits. The authors conclude that further research is required to investigate the circumstances under which providing care equates with adopting or assigning a carer identity. (JL). |
| Accession Number | CPA-110421003 A |
| Classmark | P6:SN: CI: LV: CV: CW: DP |
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