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  • Amount of care given by daughters and perceived relationship quality with care-receiving mothers

    Creator:
    Evans, Lorina S.
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    The relationship between mothers and daughters has been shown to be generally positive and strong throughout the life cycle. The relationship may become strained, however, as mothers become dependent due to deteriorating health or chronic health conditions. It has long been recognized in both the gerontological and intergenerational literatures that...
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    ; Townsend, Noelker, Deimling, & Bass, 1989). Most studies have been cross-sectional in nature and have

  • Ecology of adult day care for family caregivers

    Creator:
    Patterson, Susan L.
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    The purpose of the study was to learn more about the ways in which caregivers perceive the effects of adult day services. The goal was to help inform adult day providers about services family caregivers find useful. An ecological model was used as a framework. Data were collected from focus...
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    ; Conrad & Guttman, 1991; Zarit, Stephens, Townsend, & Greene, 1998). Although various service models of

  • Perceptions about mother-daughter relationships during daughters' childbearing

    Creator:
    Martell, Louise Kelly
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    The purpose of this study was to investigate changes in contact, emotional closeness, and aid exchange in the mother-daughter, relationship during daughter's first pregnancy. According to the literature reviewed, women increase contact with and become emotionally closer to their mothers with pregnancy. It appears that pregnant women have increased feelings...
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    daughters. In another study 12 involving mothers and adolescent daughters (Townsend & Worobey, 1987

  • Perceptions of reciprocity and relationship quality among elderly female nonkin peers

    Creator:
    Martin, Sally S.
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    There is increasing recognition of the importance of older adults in providing support to and maintaining relationships with their nonkin peers. Social trends, such as smaller family size, may reduce the role of family members and increase the importance of nonkin peers in providing help to the elderly. Relationships with...
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    & Wellin, 1980; Kohen, 1983; Lopata, 1980; Stoller & Earl, 1983; Townsend & Poulshock, 1986). Friends and

  • End-of-life caregiving

    Creator:
    Nelson, Christine A.
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    Over the past decade, changes in health, economic, and social policies have shifted the dying process out of hospitals and into the community. This exploratory,hypothesis-generating study investigated positive and negative caregiving as well as care management resources of community-based end-of-life caregivers and how they related to caregivers' personal growth following...
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    centrality (Bass, Tausig, & Noelker, 1988; Townsend & Poulshock, 1986). Centrality reflects the degree of

  • The influence of age stratification on motives for and outcomes of caregiving in mothers and daughters

    Creator:
    Shin, Hwa-Yong
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    The importance of developmental stages as well as cohort experiences has not been considered in family caregiving literature although both caregiving daughters and care-receiving mothers represent different age groups. The conceptual bases of the age stratification model and the life course perspective suggest that mothers in different age groups, as...
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