Daughters who care

Negotiating care: ties between aging mothers and their caregiving daughters.

OBJECTIVE Using a feminist social constructionist perspective, we illuminate how aging mothers and their caregiving daughters negotiate issues of connection, autonomy, and conflict. METHODS We conducted a qualitative analysis of videotaped interactions between 31 White mother-daughter pairs. RESULT We found that the mothers and daughters mostly (a) were attentive and responsive, (b) preserv...

The experiences of people who quit khat and the health care professionals who support them

Background: This study aimed to explore the barriers and enablers to quitting khat from the perspective ofusers and the barriers and enablers to supporting users to quit from the perspective of healthcareprofessionals (HCPs).Methods: The present qualitative study was conducted using semi-structured interview...

Who Survive Intensive Care

THE SUCCESS OF INTENSIVE CARE, which is designed to mitigate life-threatening critical illness, traditionallyhasbeengaugedby the proportion of patients alive at hospital discharge or at day 28. With technological advances, many patients now survive what were previously fatal critical illnesses, in turngeneratinganenlarging population of intensive care unit (ICU) survivors. There are increasing ...

America's sons and daughters.

Hilary Valdez, MS, is a Survivor Outreach Services Coordinator for the U.S. Army in Tokyo, Japan and provides services that support the Families of Fallen Soldiers. He conducts support groups and life skills training to the community and leadership. My reassignment to the desolate, harsh environment of the Mojave Desert came as quite a shock. Leaving my family to join sturdy, hard core Marines ...

Parental Favoritism toward Daughters