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S W Poulshock

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PubMed1986

Intergenerational perspectives on impaired elders' support networks.

The purpose of this paper was to compare impaired elders' and their adult children's reports of the elders' caregiving and decision-making support networks. The two generations (n = 101 each) generally agreed on the primary person in each network and on the overall hierarchy of sources of support, but they differed on the two networks' size, specific composition, and members' relative centrality. Decision-making networks were consistently smaller, more highly centralized, and more restricted to immediate family, suggesting the need to distinguish this network from the general caregiving network. Our discussion focuses on possible explanations for intergenerational differences in perspectives on elders' social support and on the desirability of taking these differences into account in both research and practice.

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PubMed1984

Families caring for elders in residence: issues in the measurement of burden.

This paper examines the concept of caregiving burden and urges a multidimensional perspective in which burden is viewed as a mediating force between the elders' impairments and the impact that caregiving has on the lives of caregivers and their families. The analysis underscores the need to apply the concept of burden to subjective interpretations by caregivers of the elders' different kinds of impairments including impairment of activities of daily living, cognitive incapacity, disruptive behavior, and lack of sociability. The analysis also demonstrates that a variety of less subjective effects of caregiving are important and measureable. These issues are elaborated and illustrated using data and findings from the Benjamin Rose Institute's survey of 614 families in which impaired elders resided with and were provided care by family members.

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PubMed1984

Intimacy: factors affecting its development among members of a home for the aged.

The purpose of this research was to explore the extent and nature of intimate interaction in an unGoffmanesque home for the aged. Interviews with all elderly residents and the staff who served them revealed that the residents' intimate relationships were primarily with others outside the home and never with staff members. Moreover, the residents and, more particularly, the staff viewed the residents in negative ways and reported more negative than positive affectivity within the home. Factors impeding intimate interactions were related to the widely shared negative stereotype of the aged residents, the manner in which staff perceived their role, and the absence of mutual aid or helping behaviors among the residents.

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