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E M Brody

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At least 19 recordsLinked to original sources
PubMed1995

Marital status of caregiving daughters and co-residence with dependent parents.

The role of caregiving daughters' marital status is examined as it relates to their sharing households with disabled elderly parents. Married daughters fared best in well-being, income, and social support. Never-married women were the most likely to have never moved out of the parental home. Separated/divorced caregivers, more than the married and widowed, had moved into the parent's home rather than the reverse and widowed daughters had lived in re-formed joint households longest. The main reason for re-forming shared households was disability of the parent. Among other reasons were death or withdrawal of previous caregiver and financial problems, with separated/divorced daughters the most likely to mention finances.

Adaptation, Psychological↗
PubMed1994

Marital status of daughters and patterns of parent care.

Patterns of help to disabled elderly parents from family and paid sources are examined as they vary among five groups of parent-caring daughters: married (n = 234), remarried (n = 56), separated/divorced (n = 91), widowed (n = 52), and never married (n = 59). Parents of all groups received similar total amounts of care from all sources combined, with daughters providing at least half of the care themselves. Never-married daughters, followed by the widowed, provided larger proportions of the total hours of care (77% and 62%) than the other three groups (p < .001). Married daughters had the most informal helpers (p < .001), and never marrieds more often were their parents' sole informal helpers (p < .01). Separated/divorced women who shared households used the highest proportions of paid care.

Adult↗
PubMed1992

Differential effects of daughters' marital status on their parent care experiences.

This study compared the parent care experiences of five groups of daughters (N = 492) (married, remarried, separated/divorced, widowed, and never married). Data include demographic characteristics and measures of depression, positive affect, personality strength, health, social support, relationship quality, caregiving burden, caregiving mastery, and caregiving satisfaction. Women with husbands had more socio-emotional and instrumental support, much higher incomes, less financial strain from caregiving, and less depression. They felt their own particular marital status made caregiving easier than did the three groups of not-married women.

Adult↗
PubMed1991

Caregiving daughters' perceptions of their own and their mothers' personalities.

This research explores differences between caregiving daughters' perceptions of their own and their mothers' personalities. A sample of caregiving daughters (N = 150) rated themselves and their mothers on the same 17 personality attributes. Daughters generally rated their mothers more negatively than themselves. Within this pattern of generally negative evaluations, varying types of impairment function differently. Functional impairment is not related to assessments of mothers' personalities, whereas psychological and cognitive impairments are.

Aged↗
PubMed1990

Mental health of sons and daughters of the institutionalized aged.

Predictors of depression in a study of 331 adult children whose parents resided in nursing homes were respondent's poor health, time pressures, viewing the parent as demanding, and lack of involvement with IADL tasks. Emotional effects specific to parent's situation were predicted by poor health, negative perceptions of nursing home staff, upsetting visits, time pressures, and being female and young. Predictors of depression and emotional effects between sons and daughters are compared.

Adult↗
PubMed1989

A controlled study of respite service for caregivers of Alzheimer's patients.

After a baseline interview of 642 caregivers of aged Alzheimer's disease victims, half were offered formal respite care. Over 12 months, families with respite care maintained their impaired relative significantly longer in the community (22 days). Although respite was ineffective for caregiver burden and mental health, satisfaction was very high. Although not a strong intervention, respite care can increase caregivers' quality of life.

Aged↗
PubMed1989

Caregiving daughters and their local siblings: perceptions, strains, and interactions.

Daughters who are principal caregivers to disabled elderly mothers are compared with their geographically proximate sisters and brothers as to the amount of help each group provides, the effects of care they experience, and the problems and benefits of the siblings' interactions about the caregiving situations. Caregivers reported the most and brothers the least service provision and strain; sisters fell in between, and also equaled caregivers in strain from intersibling problems. Negative intersibling interactions are associated with less emotional closeness in the families and the mothers' greater care needs.

Aged↗
PubMed1989

Respite services for caregivers: research findings for service planning.

A demonstration respite project for caregivers of older people with Alzheimer's disease was evaluated by a randomized experiment. Three hundred and sixteen volunteer primary caregivers were offered respite services and 315 completed the research portion without the offer of respite. The research indicated that even before the demonstration most families had some respite help in place. Of all those offered respite, 58% availed themselves of the offer. During the project year experimental and control subjects were equal in using slightly more services and there was no evidence that formal services had substituted for informal.

Aged↗
PubMed1988

Adult daughters and parent care: a comparison of one-, two- and three-generation households.

This paper compares the effects of parent-care associated with three living arrangements of elderly widowed mothers who were being helped by married daughters: elderly mother living separately; two-generation households (mothers, daughters, sons-in-law); and three-generation households (grandchildren present). Daughters whose mothers lived separately fared the best; their mothers were the most cognitively and functionally capable and the daughters reported the fewest negative effects of caregiving. Daughters in two-generation households provided the most care; their mothers were the oldest and most impaired. Since daughters in three-generation households reported more negative mental and emotional effects of care, the unique problems of caregiving in such households are discussed.

Activities of Daily Living↗
PubMed1984

What should adult children do for elderly parents? Opinions and preferences of three generations of women.

Three generations of women (N = 403) were surveyed to discover their opinions about appropriate filial behavior toward elderly parents and their personal preferences among various providers of services that they might need in old age. Opinions were elicited by a vignette focused on what hypothetical adult children with differing situational characteristics should do to help meet the needs of their dependent widowed mother. Preferences were obtained from subjects' rankings of six potential providers (representing formal and informal support systems) for eight types of services. In the responses to the vignette, adjustment of family schedules and help with costs of professional health care were seen as appropriate for adult children, but adjustment of work schedules and sharing of households were not. For themselves, the women preferred adult children as providers of emotional support and financial management but not of income. The middle generation was least in favor of receiving financial support or instrumental help from children, preferring formal services for such assistance.

Adolescent↗