Daughters Who Care: Daughters Caring for Mothers at Home

by Jane Lewis, Barbara Meredith

Overview

Daughters Who Care explores the meaning of caring from the carer’s point of view, as well as examining the implications for professionals seeking to ‘support the supporters’.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781032684406
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	05/10/2024
Series:	Routledge Library Editions: Aging
Pages:	204
Product dimensions:	5.44(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

Jane Lewis and Barbara Meredith

Table of Contents

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.