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Currently caregiving studies do in fact validate that families ARE taking care of their elderly relatives at home. Adult children remain in contact with older parents on a regular basis. Parent "dumping" at the doors of long term care facilities or public places is in fact a highly publicized but uncommon occurrence.
The definition of family is critical to our discussion, but certainly dynamic
and quite different from our conception years ago.
Family may include not relatives of the care receiver, but nonblood kin
families (neighbors, case manager, volunteers), and persons of other support
networks that provide family-like sustenance for the older person. However,
with this "expanded and expanding" view of family comes increased complexity
and complications to caregiving identification and responsibilities.
For additional information on this topic, please check the following:
Conflicts
and Stresses of Family Caregiving
Factors
and Questions about Family Caregiving
Family
Caregiving - Trends and Diversity
References
and Recommendations
Trying
New Communication Skills
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