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The Sociology of Caregiving

Author : John G. Bruhn
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 940178857X
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book The Sociology of Caregiving written by John G. Bruhn and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-05-27 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume conceptualizes caregiving as an emerging sociological issue involving complex and fluctuating roles. The authors contend that caregiving must be considered in the context of the life span with needs that vary according to age, developmental levels, mental health needs and physical health demands of both caregivers and care recipients. As the nature and functions of caregiving evolve it has become a critical and salient issue in the lives of individuals in all demographic, socioeconomic and ethnic categories. This volume frames caregiving as a sociological issue and addresses a number of central concerns, such as: - Caregiving is a life span experience associated with aging and the roles of spouses and adult children. - Caregiving involves a complex of social system variables that influence the social support and services to caregivers and care recipients. - The nature of the relationship among family caregivers, professional caregivers and the care recipient are embedded in their interaction and dynamics influenced by the internal and external variables that inhibit or facilitate the care situation. - How can caregiving be integrated with a public health agenda? - What disparities or inequalities exist in caregiving and what are the barriers that sustain them? - What community-based interventions need to be developed to improve caregiving?

The Sociology of the Caring Professions

Author : Pamela Abbott
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9781857289039
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book The Sociology of the Caring Professions written by Pamela Abbott and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text discusses the role of the caring professions and reforms in the welfare state, assessing the impact on organizational roles and relationships. It should be of value to those studying sociology, social policy, nursing and social work.

Taking Care of Our Own

Author : Sherry N. Mong
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501751476
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Taking Care of Our Own written by Sherry N. Mong and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2020-10-15 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mixing personal history, interviewee voices, and academic theory from the fields of care work, the sociology of work, medical sociology, and nursing, Taking Care of Our Own introduces us to the hidden world of family caregivers. Using a multidimensional approach, Sherry N. Mong seeks to understand and analyze the types of skilled work that family caregivers do, the processes through which they learn and negotiate new skills, and the meanings that both caregivers and nurses attach to their care work. Taking Care of Our Own is based on sixty-two in-depth interviews with family caregivers, home and community health care nurses, and other expert observers to provide a lens through which in-home care processes are analyzed, while also exploring how caregivers learn necessary procedures. Further, Mong examines the emotional labor of caregiving, as well as the identities of caregivers and nurses who are key players in the labor process, and gives attention to the ways in which the labor is transferred from medical professionals to family caregivers.

After Diagnosis: Family Caregiving with Hospice Patients

Author : John G. Bruhn
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319298038
Total Pages : 54 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (192 download)

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Book Synopsis After Diagnosis: Family Caregiving with Hospice Patients by : John G. Bruhn

Download or read book After Diagnosis: Family Caregiving with Hospice Patients written by John G. Bruhn and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-02-19 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This brief provides approaches to help family caregivers understand the role of caregiving, its challenges and consequences. Using real life case examples, it illustrates the essentials of family caregiving. The caregiving role can be a source of caregiver stress and can become increasingly burdensome. People are now living longer and acquiring chronic diseases, which makes it necessary to involve caregivers to assist in disability care for longer periods of time, and live out their end-time at home, which means caregivers are more and more needed, especially at the end-of-life. This brief illustrates the role and scope of caregiving and its future growth. It is useful to physicians, social workers, sociologists, psychologists, nurses, public health, public policy and families and has a broad appeal for use in courses on Death and Dying.

Families Caring for an Aging America

Author : National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309448093
Total Pages : 367 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (94 download)

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Download or read book Families Caring for an Aging America written by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2016-11-08 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Family caregiving affects millions of Americans every day, in all walks of life. At least 17.7 million individuals in the United States are caregivers of an older adult with a health or functional limitation. The nation's family caregivers provide the lion's share of long-term care for our older adult population. They are also central to older adults' access to and receipt of health care and community-based social services. Yet the need to recognize and support caregivers is among the least appreciated challenges facing the aging U.S. population. Families Caring for an Aging America examines the prevalence and nature of family caregiving of older adults and the available evidence on the effectiveness of programs, supports, and other interventions designed to support family caregivers. This report also assesses and recommends policies to address the needs of family caregivers and to minimize the barriers that they encounter in trying to meet the needs of older adults.

Care Work

Author : Madonna Harrington Meyer
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135959579
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (359 download)

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Download or read book Care Work written by Madonna Harrington Meyer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-05-03 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Care Work is a collection of original essays on the complexities of providing care. These essays emphasize how social policies intersect with gender, race, and class to alternately compel women to perform care work and to constrain their ability to do so. Leading international scholars from a range of disciplines provide a groundbreaking analysis of the work of caring in the context of the family, the market, and the welfare state.

Welcome to Wherever We Are

Author : Deborah J. Cohan
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 1978808925
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (788 download)

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Download or read book Welcome to Wherever We Are written by Deborah J. Cohan and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2020-02-14 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this extraordinary memoir, Deborah Cohan shares her story of caring for her elderly father, a man who was often generous and loving, but who also subjected her to a lifetime of cruelty, rage, and controlling behavior. Trained as a sociologist and family violence counselor, Cohan reflects on how she healed from decades of emotional abuse.

Towards a Sociology of Cancer Caregiving

Author : Rebecca E. Olson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317009150
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Towards a Sociology of Cancer Caregiving written by Rebecca E. Olson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-09 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Once a synonym for death, cancer is now a prognosis of multiple probabilities and produces a world of uncertainty for carers. Drawing on rich, in-depth interview data and employing interactionist theories, Towards a Sociology of Cancer Caregiving explores carers' lived experiences, paying close attention to the ways in which spouse carers manage the ambiguity that pervades their orientations to the future, their responsibilities and their emotions. A detailed exploration of the temporal and emotional journeys of spouse carers of cancer patients, this volume raises and responds to new questions about how to conceptualise informal caregiving, offering a fresh theorisation of the uncertainty that now characterises cancer. As such, it will appeal to scholars of the sociologies of emotion, time and identity, and all those interested in the question of how to support informal carers.

Caregiving with Pride

Author : Karen I. Frediksen-Goldsen
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136577408
Total Pages : 173 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (365 download)

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Download or read book Caregiving with Pride written by Karen I. Frediksen-Goldsen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-09-19 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Groundbreaking information for caregivers—and those receiving care It is more common now than ever before for partners, family members, and friends to provide informal care, yet caregiving in the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) communities has received little attention. Caregiving with Pride is the pioneering examination of caregiving experiences in the LGBT population. This important text also provides a frank discussion of the issues involved in needing and receiving care as well. Comprehensive and up-to-date, this both a timely account of an important field and practical information for implementing change. Unique in its focus and scope, Caregiving with Pride offers readers original research and new summaries and analyses of existing literature. With a wide-ranging approach that is both readable and enlightening, this essential collection recognizes the changing nature of families as central to the issues of caregiving and LGBT communities. It features articles that insist on and illustrate the importance of taking both identity issues and socio-cultural policy contexts of caregiving into account. While maintaining a multifaceted biopsychosocial perspective that is critical to understanding the varied aspects of this topic, contributors discuss: the prevalence of caregiving with LGBT communities health issues and the needs of those requiring care the unique risk and protective factors impacting HIV/AIDS caregivers the psychological effects - positive and negative - of caregiving family and personal - “chosen family” - relationships interactions with formal systems of health and long-term care effects of history and social stigma on those needing and giving care how current social policies impede LGBT people in their access to care the ways established medical guidelines hinder LGBT caregivers in their efforts to help existing interventions and opportunities to better sever these communities and much more! While Caregiving with Pride provides a detailed perspective of the current state of this often overlooked field, it also looks ahead and outlines a practical, useable blueprint for future research, services, and policies in marginalized communities. As an informative stand-alone resource, Caregiving with Pride is essential for gerontologists, sociologists, historians, social workers, psychologists, educators, researchers, and policy makers. In addition, this collection is ideal as a supplementary text for students of aging, women studies, GLBT studies, sociology, and health studies as well as the larger GLBT community.

Balancing Work and Caregiving for Children, Adults, and Elders

Author : Margaret B. Neal
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 0803942826
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (39 download)

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Download or read book Balancing Work and Caregiving for Children, Adults, and Elders written by Margaret B. Neal and published by SAGE. This book was released on 1993-02 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on a survey of 10,000 employees in 33 enterprises who have responsibility for the care of children, adults with disabilities, or older people.

Caring for Our Own

Author : Sandra R. Levitsky
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199993149
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (999 download)

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Download or read book Caring for Our Own written by Sandra R. Levitsky and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014-04-17 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Caring for Our Own inverts an enduring question of social welfare politics. Rather than ask why the American state hasn't responded to unmet social welfare needs by expanding social entitlements, this book asks: Why don't American families view unmet social welfare needs as the basis for demands for new state entitlements? The answer, Sandra Levitsky argues, lies in a better understanding of how individuals imagine solutions to the social welfare problems they confront and what prevents new understandings of social welfare provision from developing into political demand for alternative social arrangements. Caring for Our Own considers the powerful ways in which existing social policies shape the political imagination, reinforcing longstanding values about family responsibility, subverting grievances grounded in notions of social responsibility, and in some rare cases, constructing new models of social provision that transcend existing ideological divisions in American social politics.

Care and Culture

Author : Jorun Rugkåsa
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443881198
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)

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Download or read book Care and Culture written by Jorun Rugkåsa and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2015-09-04 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Informal care provided by family members is central to current health and social care policy. Caregiving can be seen as a point where macro- and micro-level processes meet: it simultaneously concerns the organization of welfare states and the everyday lives of the millions of people giving and receiving informal care. This makes it important to understand how the carer role is conceptualized and performed by those occupying it. Care and Culture contributes to the sociology of caregiving by giving voice to mental health carers from a great variety of backgrounds and by placing personal experiences centre stage in its analysis. It addresses a number of questions: How do cultural notions of kinship, family and connectedness shape carers’ motivations to care? What does caring for someone with a mental illness involve and how does it affect the caregiver? In what ways should carers be supported? How are their needs defined? Why is there a gap between how carers view their contribution and its recognition in policy and practice? How does a lack of recognition affect those experiencing it? Drawing on practice-oriented cognitive sociology, the book shows that, in order to understand caregiving, its personal, social and cultural dimensions must be considered. It presents a new model for understanding caregivers’ care relations to the person who is unwell, to health professionals and to the state. Perceiving these three relations as relying on differing reciprocal arrangements with different moral implications, new light is shed on issues such as the caregiving burden and the commodification of care.

Taking Care of Our Own

Author : Sherry N. Mong
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501751468
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Taking Care of Our Own written by Sherry N. Mong and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2020-10-15 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mixing personal history, interviewee voices, and academic theory from the fields of care work, the sociology of work, medical sociology, and nursing, Taking Care of Our Own introduces us to the hidden world of family caregivers. Using a multidimensional approach, Sherry N. Mong seeks to understand and analyze the types of skilled work that family caregivers do, the processes through which they learn and negotiate new skills, and the meanings that both caregivers and nurses attach to their care work. Taking Care of Our Own is based on sixty-two in-depth interviews with family caregivers, home and community health care nurses, and other expert observers to provide a lens through which in-home care processes are analyzed, while also exploring how caregivers learn necessary procedures. Further, Mong examines the emotional labor of caregiving, as well as the identities of caregivers and nurses who are key players in the labor process, and gives attention to the ways in which the labor is transferred from medical professionals to family caregivers.

The Caring Self

Author : Clare L. Stacey
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 0801463327
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (14 download)

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Download or read book The Caring Self written by Clare L. Stacey and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2011-07-07 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, there were approximately 1.7 million home health aides and personal and home care aides in the United States as of 2008. These home care aides are rapidly becoming the backbone of America’s system of long-term care, and their numbers continue to grow. Often referred to as frontline care providers or direct care workers, home care aides—disproportionately women of color—bathe, feed, and offer companionship to the elderly and disabled in the context of the home. In The Caring Self, Clare L. Stacey draws on observations of and interviews with aides working in Ohio and California to explore the physical and emotional labor associated with the care of others. Aides experience material hardships—most work for minimum wage, and the services they provide are denigrated as unskilled labor—and find themselves negotiating social norms and affective rules associated with both family and work. This has negative implications for workers who struggle to establish clear limits on their emotional labor in the intimate space of the home. Aides often find themselves giving more, staying longer, even paying out of pocket for patient medications or incidentals; in other words, they feel emotional obligations expected more often of family members than of employees. However, there are also positive outcomes: some aides form meaningful ties to elderly and disabled patients. This sense of connection allows them to establish a sense of dignity and social worth in a socially devalued job. The case of home care allows us to see the ways in which emotional labor can simultaneously have deleterious and empowering consequences for workers.

Sharing Care

Author : Brooks, Rachel
Publisher : Policy Press
ISBN 13 : 1529205972
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (292 download)

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Download or read book Sharing Care written by Brooks, Rachel and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2021-10-13 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This timely study explores the experiences of fathers who take on equal or primary care responsibilities for young children. Offering academic insight and practical recommendations, this will be key reading for researchers, policymakers, practitioners and students interested in contemporary families.

Family Caregiving in Mental Illness

Author : Harriet P. Lefley
Publisher : SAGE Publications, Incorporated
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Family Caregiving in Mental Illness written by Harriet P. Lefley and published by SAGE Publications, Incorporated. This book was released on 1996-01-19 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the trend of deinstitutionalization, family members are finding themselves increasingly in the position of primary caregivers to mentally ill adults - a role for which they are often untrained and unprepared. This volume explores the experiences of these caregivers. The author: discusses the characteristics and conceptual models related to mental illness; surveys the experience of mental illness in the context of the family life cycle and developmental stages of the illness; appraises the burdens on the family including social stigma, refusal of treatment, stress and the relationship between the mentally ill and caregivers within the family; and reviews family responses including coping strategies and professional and

Family Caregiving

Author : Whitney A. Bailey
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319647830
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (196 download)

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Download or read book Family Caregiving written by Whitney A. Bailey and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-10-28 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive resource offers a detailed framework for fostering resilience in families caring for their older members. Its aim is to improve the quality of life for both the caregivers themselves as much as for those they support. Robust interventions are presented to guide family members through chronic and acute challenges in areas such as emotional health, physical comfort, financial aspects of care, dealing with health systems, and adjusting to transition. Examples, models, interviews, and an extended case study identify core concerns of caregiving families and avenues for nurturing positive adaptation. Throughout, contributors provide practical applications for therapists and other service providers in diverse disciplines, and for advancing family resilience as a field. Included in the coverage: Therapeutic interventions for caregiving families. Facilitating older adults’ resilience through meeting nutritional needs. Improving ergonomics for the safety, comfort, and health of caregivers. Hope as a coping resource for caregiver resilience and well-being. Perspectives on navigating care transitions with individuals with dementia. Planning for and managing costs related to caregiving. Family Caregiving offers a new depth of knowledge and real-world utility to social workers, mental health professionals and practitioners, educators and researchers in the field of family resilience, as well as scholars in the intersecting disciplines of family studies, human development, psychology, sociology, social work, education, law, and medicine.