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Peer reviewedBrody, Elaine M.; Schoonover, Claire B. – Gerontologist, 1986
Describes variations in patterns of help to disabled elderly widows when caregiving adult daughters work and when they do not. Mothers of the two groups received the same total number hours of help from all sources combined. Working daughters provided less personal care and cooking than did nonworkers, with the difference being offset by purchased…
Descriptors: Child Responsibility, Employed Women, Helping Relationship, Mothers
Peer reviewedBrody, Elaine M.; And Others – Gerontologist, 1987
Compared four groups of parent caring daughters. Found that the "conflicted" workers and women who had quit work had the most impaired mothers and more of them had experienced lifestyle disruptions and caregiving strain. Two groups of workers were more career-oriented; two groups of nonworkers held more traditional views of women's…
Descriptors: Child Responsibility, Daughters, Employed Women, Family Problems
