Grandmothers Caring

[Impact of caring for grandchildren on the perceived health and social support of the grandmothers].

OBJECTIVE To find out the impact on health related quality of life and social support perceived by grandmothers caring for their grandchildren part time. DESIGN Observational cross-sectional study. SETTING Semi-urban primary care health area, in the metropolitan area of Barcelona, Spain. PARTICIPANTS Women aged more than 55, randomised from the assigned population. Caregivers were grandmo...

Grandmothers, caregiving, and family functioning.

OBJECTIVES We used McCubbin's Resiliency Model of Family Stress, Adjustment and Adaptation ( McCubbin, Thompson, & McCubbin, 2001) to examine how demographic factors, family stress, grandmother resourcefulness, support, and role reward affect perceptions of family functioning for grandmothers raising grandchildren, grandmothers living in multigenerational households, and grandmothers not caregi...

Paying Down the Care Deficit The Health Consequences for Grandmothers Caring for Grandchildren in a Mexican Migrant Community of Origin

142 IntroductIon “When are you going to start having babies?” teased Sara1 as we ate breakfast one morning in her house in Los Cañales, a small town in southern Veracruz, Mexico. I hedged, “I’ll start thinking about it when I finish school.” I was uncomfortable with the question because as we became better acquainted, Sara began to hint – subtly at first, and then directly – that she would be h...

"We grandmothers know plenty": breastfeeding, complementary feeding and the multifaceted role of grandmothers in Malawi.

This paper has two purposes: first of all, we examine grandmothers' role and views of child feeding practices in northern Malawi, and their influence on younger women's practices. Secondly, we consider the implications of these findings for health promotion activities and models of health education. Data were collected from semi-structured interviews, focus groups and a participatory workshop. ...

Grandmothers as Childcare Providers in Brazil*