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Black, Helen K.; Rubinstein, Robert L. – International Journal of Aging and Human Development, 2013
This study is based on original research that explored family reaction to the death of an elderly husband and father. We interviewed 34 families (a family included a widow and two adult biological children) approximately 6 to 10 months after the death. In one-on-one interviews, we discussed family members' initial reaction to the death, how the…
Descriptors: Parent Child Relationship, Intimacy, Death, Family (Sociological Unit)
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Cheek, Cheryl – International Journal of Aging and Human Development, 2010
This qualitative study of nine women examined the changes in their everyday lives as they cared for their terminally-ill husbands and after their husbands died. It also studied how the women coped with these changes, and how their coping contributed to their identity change from wife to widow. Symbolic interaction was utilized to study the changes…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Females, Spouses, Terminal Illness
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Grand, A.; And Others – International Journal of Aging and Human Development, 1993
Identified in population of older adults different types of couples and linked resulting typology to way handicaps are handled. Four types of couples were identified and types varied in their management of disabilities. Findings from elderly couples suggest that one must take functioning of couple into account to fully understand situation of…
Descriptors: Coping, Disabilities, Foreign Countries, Older Adults