Caring for Parents With Neurodegenerative Disease

Caring for parents with neurodegenerative disease: a qualitative description.

PURPOSE/OBJECTIVE The objective of this study was to explore the positive aspects experienced by adult children in providing care to their parent who has either Parkinson's or Alzheimer's disease. DESIGN A qualitative descriptive approach was used to analyze audiotaped in-depth semistructured interviews that were conducted with 34 adult children who were primary caregivers as part of a larger...

Caring for Aging Parents

Caring strategies in parents of children with cancer

Background: The increased prevalence of cancer in children influences the family as the main child caregiver. Regarding the spiritual dimension for increasing the life quality of parents and its effect on the management of the conditions induced by the disease, the goal of this study was to determine the strategy of care in parents of cancer children. Materials and Methods: This study was perf...

Parents Caring For Adult Children With Serious Mental Illness.

BACKGROUND Parents often become the caregivers for their adult children with serious mental illness (SMI) due to the chronic and debilitating course of the illness and shortages in funding for community mental health services and residential placements. OBJECTIVE To examine parents' management styles when caring for adult children with SMI and parents' perspectives on what type of community-b...

Stigmatized and Perpetual Parents: Older Parents Caring for Adult Children with Life-Long Disabilities

Common misconceptions in the popular press focus on the dependency of the aged population, or cast the elderly in the role of the "greedy old geezer. ' However, large numbers of elders provide care for family members rather than receive care. This paper explores the unique stresses and strains in the caregiving relationships between older parents and their adult children with developmental disa...