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Spousal caregiving in the institutional setting
— task performance | | Author(s) | Margaret M Ross, Carolyn J Rosenthal, Pamela G Dawson |
| Journal title | Canadian Journal on Aging, vol 16, no 1, Spring 1997 |
| Pages | pp 51-69 |
| Keywords | Spouses as carers ; Wives as carers ; Husbands ; Institutional accommodation ; Canada. |
| Annotation | The study has a sociological perspective, and used a longitudinal and prospective design, combining qualitative and quantitative approaches. Data were drawn from a larger Canadian study designed to explore the transition to quasi-widowhood. This article reports on one aspect of spousal caregiving following admission of husbands to a long-term care setting: the performance of tasks. Wives carried out a substantial number and wide variety of tasks related to personal, instrumental, relational and recreational care. They viewed visiting as their most important task for their husbands, and monitoring their health and well-being. Typically, wives carried out tasks they viewed as their responsibility. Task performance occurred within a context of meaning that served to explain, in part, their continued involvement in caregiving following the admission of husbands to a long-term care setting. The study points to a need for collaboration in caregiving between wives and staff, to support and enhance the quality of care provided by wives coping with the institutionalisation of their husbands. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-970821289 A |
| Classmark | P6:SN: P6:SNW: SNA: KV: 7S |
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