1st Edition
Daughters Who Care Daughters Caring for Mothers at Home
204 Pages
by
Routledge
204 Pages
by
Routledge
204 Pages
by
Routledge
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In the 1980s, as the proportion of elderly people in the population grew steadily larger, the task of looking after them would fall increasingly on one group – daughters. The government, in promoting its move in social policy towards community care, had stated that ‘the family’ – which in practice meant women – must expect to provide the bulk of care in the future. But how do women feel about... Read more
Acknowledgements. 1. Caring and Carers: The Issues 2. Why Care? 3. The Caring Task 4. The Mother/Daughter Relationship 5. Carers’ Extra-Caring Lives 6. External Sources of Help 7. Responses to Caring 8. The Legacy of Caring 9. Conclusions. References. Resource Bibliography. Appendix A: Interview Schedule. Appendix B: Caring Vocabulary. Appendix C: Benefits for Carers. Appendix D: Institutional Accommodation for Elderly People. I ndex.
Biography
Jane Lewis and Barbara Meredith
