What Motivates Wives, Daughters, and Daughters-in-Law to Provide Dementia Care?
Cahill, Suzanne M Journal of Family Studies, 1999, 5, 2, Oct, 235-247. Explores the diverse reasons why 39 women in Brisbane, Australia, adopt dementia care roles & the extent to which a choice is available to them, drawing on in-depth interview data. Emerging differences between wives, daughters, & daughters-in-law regarding motivation to care are discussed. It is concluded that practitioners working in the field of aged care need to be mindful of the processes involved in decisions to care & of the extent to which informal care may be provided either willingly or reluctantly. 3 Tables, 41 References. Adapted from the source document. back to top • “Our Own Little Language”: Naming and the Social Construction of Alzheimer’s Disease Vittoria, Anne K Symbolic Interaction, 1999, 22, 4, 361-384. Specialized care environments designed to meet the needs of what some would argue is a dramatically increasing population worldwide, those with Alzheimer’s disease, have been dominated by a medica
