Women in the Middle
Their Parent-Care Years
Women in the Middlewas so-named because daughters, who are the main caregivers to elderly disabled parents, most often in their middle years, are caught in the middle of multiple competing demands on their time and energy. Since the first edition, women's responsibilities and the pressures they have experienced have increased and intensified. Dr. Brody revisits this phenomenon in this new, updated edition of her ground-breaking work.
Women in the Middle, 2/e, describes and discusses the caregiving women's subjective feelings, experiences, and problems, and the effects on their mental and physical well-being, life styles, family relationships, and vocational activities. These case studies and narratives present an insider's view of the harsh and sometimes joyful experience of caregiving.
Special attention is given to the changing face of social, economic, and environmental conditions, as well as the diversity of the caregiver, in which caregiving, in which caregiving takes place.
- Foreword, B.D Lebowitz
- Women in the Middle: How it Happened
- Scope of Parent Care
- Effects of Caregiving
- Values About Women's Roles and Care of the Aged
- Introduction
- On Becoming the Primary Care giver: The Caregiving Daughters and Their Siblings
- Six Major Subjective Themes and A Variation
- Diversity in Age and Stages
- Diversity in Marital Status: Introduction and a Research Survey
- Married Daughters and Their Husbands and Children: 10 Case Histories and a
- Comment
- Daughters Without Partners
- Caregiving Daughters-in-Law (The Proxy Primaries): 7 Case Histories and a Comment
- Commentary on Marital Status and Parent Care
- Diversity in Work Status
- Ethnic and Racial Diversity, A.R. Saperstein
- Effects on Women in the Middle
- Nursing Home Placement: A Painful Decision
- Community Services and Residential Settings, A.R. Saperstein
- Unfinished Business on the Parent-Care Agenda
Introduction
Part I: Background
Part II: Subjective Experiences
Part III: Diversity Among Caregivers
Part IV: Services and Living Arrangements for Older People
Part V: Unfinished Business
References
- Release Date: November 12, 2003
- Hardback
- 400 Pages
- Trim Size: 6in x 9in
- ISBN: 9780826163813
- eBook ISBN: 9780826197764