Biomedical subjects

A Grand-Filaire

Publications and source records attributed to A Grand-Filaire.

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PubMed1999

Caregiver stress: a failed negotiation? A qualitative study in South West France.

The purpose of this work is to analyze the various negotiations involved in setting up and developing a caregiving relationship with a disabled elderly person, to understand the processes inducing caregiver stress. Within the conceptual framework defined by the paradigm of negotiation, this study uses the theoretical contributions of the parallelist theory and the theory of the gift. It is based on a qualitative inquiry including fifty-four caregivers conducted in Toulouse (South West France). The analysis focuses on two undersystems of the caregiver's relationships: 1) the caregiver/cared-for's relationship, which is characterized by the establishment and maintenance of a "tacit contract" and 2) the relationships with other eligible caregivers, which are marked by the "designation" of the principal caregiver. This analysis shows that a failure in the negotiation process can induce a designation and/or a weak tacit contract-the result of which is the caregiver's expression of stress. This expression is closely linked to the caregiver's perception of a negative balance in his/her exchanges with the partners. This study should help break away from the one-way arrow model currently dominating the field of caregiver stress research.

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PubMed1993

Aging couples and disability management.

The purpose of this work is to identify, in an elderly population, couple patterns and to relate this typology to the management of disabilities. Resulting from questions arising from research in gerontology, it utilizes the theoretical contribution of the sociology of the family so as to understand the relationships between the functioning of the couple and the management of disability. Four types of couples have been identified according to the presence or absence of a tacit contract between husband and wife and according to the character of their relationships. In each type, we have studied the conduct of daily life and its negotiation as well as the management of disabilities. The analysis shows that this management is very different according to the type of couple and thus confirms the importance of taking the functioning of the couple into account so as to fully understand the situation of disabled married elderly persons.

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PubMed1986

[Eating behavior and life styles: research and action on nutrition in a rural area].

Nutrition education has sometimes been portrayed as a normative discourse, forgetting that nutrition is at the heart of basic lifestyle habits. In fact, eating not only satisfies a basic need, it is a social and communication action that develops an interaction with a person's socio-economic and cultural framework. This article describes an educational programme that involved all 2,200 inhabitants of a small rural town in the south of France. The purpose of the study was to better define what was involved in the development of eating behaviours in order to adapt information for the population. Two hundred families, 28% of the town, were provided with a survey questionnaire. Questions about socio-economic and cultural data of the families, types of food provisions, cooking initiation, perceived knowledge of dietetics, and ways of sociability were included. This research permitted the identification of different profiles of eaters: working class families, the elderly, families without children, etc... The subsequent information campaign attempted to adapt its message to each category identified, taking into consideration economic and psychosocial factors, the attachment of the population to its culinary patrimony, and the pejorative vision of dietetics perceived by part of the population. The entire community collaborated at each stage of the programme. Conceived as a research project, it contributed to motivating the population to take an active role in the management of its health problems.

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[Couples, aging and management of disabilities].

Four types of couples have been identified, based on the presence or not of a tacit contract between husband and wife and on their egalitarian or unegalitarian relationship. Each type is analyzed as concerns such items as the conduct of daily life, the negotiation process involved in it, the management of disabilities. Management of disabilities varies according to the above-mentioned typology. Therefore the relationship between husband and wife is extremely important in handling disabilities of the elderly people.

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