Overview

This collection of essays is about dependent older people and their families, that is, older people who need help in their daily life: from the frail elderly who need mainly minor assistance in performing housework or for transportation, to severely disabled older people, bed-ridden or senile. The studies reported in this book offer a wide and informed overview of issues connected with caring for frail and disabled older people, whether carried out by family caregivers, paid helpers or formal caregivers. That the number of older people world-wide is increasing can certainly be considered a human achievement, but at the same time it generates a series of problems that must be faced.

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Author:   Isabella Paoletti
Publisher:   Nova Science Publishers Inc
Imprint:   Nova Science Publishers Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 26.00cm , Height: 3.30cm , Length: 18.00cm
Weight:   0.929kg
ISBN:  

9781594548086

ISBN 10:   1594548080
Pages:   424
Publication Date:   01 March 2007
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction; The intricacy of gender, moral, relational, financial and housing issues; Economically unrational farm business families in Finland; A pendular movement between the intergenerational pact and the exhaustion of support networks in Argentina; A study of the care-giving role of the sandwich generation in Hong Kong; Caregivers, Helpers, and Family: Family Care-giving Research in a Canadian Context; Negotiations and room for manoeuvre in caring for an elderly parent; Family care-giving when relationships are poor; Men, Marriage and Care: Caring for a Partner with MS; Mother-Daughter Relationships within the Care Process of Alzheimers Disease: The Daughters Perspective; Long-distance Care-giving: Transnational Families and the Provision of Aged Care; The reconstitution of need: Home-based care in the wake of Canadian health care restructuring; Through Kith and Kin: Supporting the Family Caregiver for the Elderly; Extracting the Essence of Formal Care giving: A Comparative Study of Formal Care Givers in English and German Care Homes; The value of the work - On Employment for Family Care in Sweden; Inter-professional decision making in elderly care: morality, criteria and help allocation; Exploring the cultural borderlines of family care-giving in Finland; Caregivers and Community Service Non-use in Australia; Ethnicity and Care-giving: A case study in Great Britain; Index.

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