The Impact of Health on the Aged Family

Kent, Donald P.; Matson, Margaret

doi:10.2307/581784

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“…TO measure emotions associated with nursing home admission, a 6-item scale was developed based on a review of literature (Kent & Matson, 1972;Lawton, 1974;Newman, 1976;Noelker & Wallace, 1985;Tobin & Kulys, 1981) and discussions with the nursing home's social service staff. Items were selected that deal with reactions to placing a relative in an institution (i.e., guilt, sadness, anger, frustration with lack of control over relative's health, thoughts about own .future health, and thoughts about own future living arrangements).…”

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Caregiver Adaptations to Having a Relative with Dementia Admitted to a Nursing Home

Riddick

Cohen‐Mansfield

Fleshner

et al. 1992

Journal of Gerontological Social Work

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This sludy examined caregivers' adaptation lo placing a relative, who suffers from dementia, in a nursing home. Relatives of 84 residents of a non-proprietary skilled nursing facilily parlicip a k d in the study. The perception of burden in caring for their relative decreased significantly following nursing home placement.The effects of the stress of having a loved one with dementia on caregiver's emotional adaptation and perceived burden was dependent on familial rela~ionship. Care-receiver's acceptance of the nursing home placemenl and length of caregiving affected caregiver's burden, which, in turn, affected emotions regarding nursing home placement, salisfaction with the nursing home, and socialrecreational activities.

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Caregiver Adaptations to Having a Relative with Dementia Admitted to a Nursing Home

Riddick

Cohen‐Mansfield

Fleshner

et al. 1992

Journal of Gerontological Social Work

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“…Upon reaching advanced years, the elderly person's role in the family is frequently reversed so that instead of benefits flowing from elderly parent to child, the elderly person has to be provided for. The increasing dependency that occurs in the elderly and the resultant reversal of long-standing roles that takes place also could lead to lowered well-being for the elderly person (Arling, 1976;Hochschild, 1973;Kent & Matson, 1972). This conceptualization suggests that is is precisely because children provide services and satisfy needs (which previously the person could satisfy for him-or herself) that contact with children does not promote wellbeing.…”

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Effects of social interaction and children's relative inputs on older women's psychological well-being.

Beckman¹

1981

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

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This study examines the influence of social interaction and relative inputs of parent and children (as perceived by the mother) on older women's social and psychological well-being and their satisfaction with their children. The sample consisted of 719 Anglo-American women between the ages of 60 and 75. Half of the women were widows and the other half were currently married and were living with a spouse. For each marital status group the sample was further stratified so that approximately half of the women selected were childless and half had living children. Multiple regression analysis of survey results revealed that contact with other relatives, friends, and associates was more important for older women's well-being than was contact with children and that well-being was enhanced by quality, as compared to quantity, of interaction. Perceived quality of child contact also appeared to be influenced by the women's perceptions of other social relationships. Weak support for equity theory explanations of relationship satisfaction was found: If children provided much better input to the relationship than did the parent, distress and dissatisfaction were likely to exist for the parent. Finally, whereas for women with children amount of interaction appeared unimportant (perhaps because most parents had a certain level of minimal contact with others), for childless women amount, as well as quality, of contact with others was positively related to well-being.One prevalent finding in the social gerontology literature is a positive association between social interaction and life satisfaction among the elderly. General indexes of social activity, such as frequency of visiting friends and neighbors, have consistently shown a positive relationship to psychological well-being (Larson, 1978). Interestingly enough, contact with persons other than children appears to be much more closely associated with well-being than is contact with

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“…Blau, 1973;Chang, 1977;Kent and Matson, 1972;Romeis et al, 1971;Shanas et al, 1968). According to Romeis and co-workers (1971:3), reference group theory has heuristic potential in addressing the questions answered by both the disengagement and activity theoretical perspectives.…”

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Family versus friends: Their relative importance as referent others to an aged population

Mitchell

Acuff

1982

Sociological Spectrum

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The Impact of Health on the Aged Family

Cited by 16 publications

References 8 publications

Caregiver Adaptations to Having a Relative with Dementia Admitted to a Nursing Home

Caregiver Adaptations to Having a Relative with Dementia Admitted to a Nursing Home

Effects of social interaction and children's relative inputs on older women's psychological well-being.

Family versus friends: Their relative importance as referent others to an aged population

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