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Caring for Elderly Parents: Juggling Work, Family, and Caregiving in Middle and Working Class Families - Couverture rigide

Merrill, Deborah M.

 
9780865692695: Caring for Elderly Parents: Juggling Work, Family, and Caregiving in Middle and Working Class Families
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 0865692696 ISBN 13 : 9780865692695
Editeur : Praeger Publishers Inc, 1997

Synopsis

Based on open-ended interviews with adult children and children-in-law, this book documents how plain folk from the working and middle classes manage to provide care for their frail, elderly parents while simultaneously meeting the obligations of their jobs and their own immediate families.

Adult children who care for elderly parents are pressured daily trying to juggle the responsibilities of work, family, and caregiving. Deborah Merrill shows how plain folk (as one caregiver termed herself) from the working and lower middle classes manage to provide care for their frail, elderly parents while simultaneously meeting the obligations of their jobs and their own immediate families. The evidence is drawn from open-ended, in-depth interviews with adult children and children-in-law, all of whom have worked outside of the home at some point during caregiving.

Merrill examines the strategies that caregivers use to combine work and caregiving and the accommodations they make in their jobs. She also points to the pathways that lead family members to caregiving roles and how those pathways vary according to family history, gender, and in-law status. By focusing on class differences in caregiving and pointing to policy implications, Merrill has provided an invaluable resource for students, researchers, and policymakers in social work, gerontology, family studies, and social issues.

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À propos de l'auteur

DEBORAH M. MERRILL is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Clark University. Over the past several years she has published articles in both gerontology and family studies.

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Éditeur
Praeger Publishers Inc
Date d'édition
1997
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0865692696
ISBN 13 
9780865692695
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
244
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
gpsr@libri.de
gpsr@libri.de

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