GERO 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Speech-Language Pathology, Medical Home, Pain Management
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Paid caregivers; include professionals and paraprofessional (home care workers) increasing; de to more family caregivers quaking outside the home. Provide nonmusical care training varies by state. 75 hours, 16 hours ojt in nebraska. Demography long-standing trends in mortality and birth-rates have consequences for the kin network. Fewer offspring and sibling are available to offer support for aging adults. Adult children without siblings experience a greater level of strain in caregiving. More people are living well into their 80s which may leave young-old children as caregivers. Women"s changing role traditionally women have been expected to help with physical care and social activities as kin keepers. Men were expected to help with tax completion, medical bookkeeping, and household maintenance the primary predictor of parent-care hours is the number of female siblings. Middle-aged daughters experience more stress than wives the basis for help now is less for economic reasons and more for psychological reasons, Changing relationships such as affection, gratitude, or guilt.
