Middle-Aged Offspring's Support to Aging Parents With Emerging Disability.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose of the study

A vast literature has examined family caregivers, but few studies explore transitions from providing ordinary support to parents to situations involving increasing dependency. Using 2 waves of data, we examined how parents' increasing disability in activities of daily living (ADL) is associated with changes in everyday support patterns, relationship quality, and psychological well-being of middle-aged offspring, taking into account other informal and paid help to the parent.

Design and methods

Three hundred and eighty middle-aged adults reported on everyday support they provided to each parent (N = 487) and parent's ADL at baseline and 5 years later.

Results

Increased parents' disability led to increases in offspring's support, in particular tangi

SUBMITTER: Kim K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5881747 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature