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| The impact of employment and serious illness on grandmothers who are raising their grandchildren | | Author(s) | Roberta G Sands, Robin S Goldberg-Glen |
| Journal title | Journal of Women & Aging, vol 10, no 3, 1998 |
| Pages | pp 41-58 |
| Source | http://www.tandfonline.com |
| Keywords | Family care ; Grandmothers ; Grandchildren ; Mental disorder ; Stress ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | In the United States (US), increasing numbers of children are living in families consisting of grandparents and grandchildren, however, becoming a parent to one's grandchildren is not customary and may be potentially risky. This paper presents findings from a US study in which 123 caregiving grandmothers were interviewed. The aim was to assess the impact of employment and life-threatening illness on grandmothers who are the primary caregivers for their grandchildren. regression analyses found that having a life-threatening physical condition, being younger and white explained psychological anxiety; and having a life-threatening physical condition and not being employed explained psychophysiological mental health symptoms. These findings suggest that some grandmothers are at risk for mental health symptoms and raise questions about the implications of caregiving of grandchildren for older women. (AKM). |
| Accession Number | CPA-980810404 A |
| Classmark | P6:SJ: SW2: SW5: E: QNH: 7T |
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