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Caregiving contexts : cultural, familial, and societal implications /
Focuses on the issue of caregiving from various contextual frameworks - sociocultural, familial, and sociopolitical - as opposed to the more common disciplinary perspective. This book is suitable for preparing caregiving related programs and policies for the challenges of the aging baby boomer gener...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Springer Pub.,
©2008.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: caregiving in context / Adam Davey and Maximiliane E. Szinovacz
- Sociocultural contexts
- Demographic change and the future of informal caregiving / Peter Uhlenberg and Michelle Cheuk
- Choosing between paid elder care and unpaid help from adult children: the role of relative prices in the care decision / Richard W. Johnson
- Commitment to caring: filial responsibility and the allocation of support by adult children to older mothers / Merril Silverstein, Stephen Conroy, and Daphna Gans
- Cross-national variations in elder care: antecedents and outcomes / Ariela Lowenstein, Ruth Katz, and Nurit Gur-Yaish
- Familial contexts
- Spouses caring for spouses: untangling the influences of relationship and gender / Eleanor Palo Stoller and Casey Schroeder Miklowski
- Division of care among adult children / Adam Davey and Maximiliane E. Szinovacz
- Children in caregiving families / Maximiliane E. Szinovacz
- Sociopolitical contexts
- Workplace policies and caregiving / Eliza K. Pavalko, Kathryn A. Henderson, and Amanda Cott
- Caregiving policies in the United States: framing a national agenda / Steven K. Wisensale
- Family care for elders in Europe: policies and practices / Gerdt Sundström [and others]
- Caregiving contexts: implications for research and policy / Maximiliane E. Szinovacz and Adam Davey.