Women in the Middle: Their Parent-Care Years, Second Edition / Edition 2

by Elaine M. Brody

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780826163813
Publisher:	Springer Publishing Company, Incorporated
Publication date:	11/12/2003
Series:	Springer Series on Lifestyles and Issues in Aging
Edition description:	Second Edition
Pages:	400
Product dimensions:	6.06(w) x 9.22(h) x 1.03(d)

About the Author

Elaine M. Brody, MSW, DSc (Hon), was, for many years, Director of the Department of Human Resources and Associate Director of Research at the Philadelphia Geriatric Center. She also was Clinical Professor of Psychiatry in the Department of Psychiatry at the Medical College of Pennsylvania and Adjunct Associate Professor of Social Work in Psychiatry in the School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. Mrs. Brody is a past President of The Gerontological Society of America (1980).

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Table of Contents

Foreword, B.D Lebowitz
Introduction
Part I: Background
• Women in the Middle: How it Happened
• Scope of Parent Care
• Effects of Caregiving
• Values About Women's Roles and Care of the Aged
Part II: Subjective Experiences
• Introduction
• On Becoming the Primary Care giver: The Caregiving Daughters and Their Siblings
• Six Major Subjective Themes and A Variation
Part III: Diversity Among Caregivers
• 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
Part IV: Services and Living Arrangements for Older People
• Effects on Women in the Middle
• Nursing Home Placement: A Painful Decision
• Community Services and Residential Settings, A.R. Saperstein
Part V: Unfinished Business
• Unfinished Business on the Parent-Care Agenda
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From the Publisher

"[Brody's] perspective is timely and highly welcome at this time. ...She has enriched our field and our lives..."
—From the Foreword by Barry D. Lebowitz, PhD, Chief, Adult and Geriatric Treatment and Preventive Interventions Research Branch, National Institute of Mental Health.