The Child-Parent Caregiving Relationship in Later Life

Psychosocial Experiences
1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-1-4473-1969-6
Verlag: Bristol University Press

Buch, Englisch, 168 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 245 g

This book presents a sensitive account of the challenges faced by adult children when making difficult decisions about care for and with their ageing parents in later life.

It offers new insights into the practical, emotional and physical effects that witnessing the ageing and death of parents has on those in late midlife and how these relationships are negotiated during this phase of the life course.

The author uses a psychosocial approach to understand the complexity of the experience of having a parent transition to care and the ambiguous feelings that these decisions evoke.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Morgan Brett, Bethany

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Arbeit/Sozialpädagogik Soziale Arbeit/Sozialpädagogik: Kranken-, Alten- und Behindertenhilfe
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Altersgruppen Kinder- und Jugendsoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Familiensoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction

1. Midlife and the adult child

2. Becoming a carer

3. The transition to care

4. Materiality, clothing, and embodiment in care

5. Social connections and relationship building in residential care

6. The loss of parents in later life

Final reflections

Über Autor(innen)

Morgan Brett, Bethany
Bethany Morgan Brett is currently working as a child and adolescent psychodynamic psychotherapist and freelance academic. She has previously held lecturing positions in the Department of Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies at the University of Essex and the Department of Psychosocial Studies at the University of East London.

Bethany Morgan Brett is Research Fellow at City, University of London. She has previously held lecturing positions in the Department of Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies at the University of Essex and the Department of Psychosocial Studies at the University of East London.