Women in the Middle: Their Parent-Care Years (SPRINGER SERIES ON LIFE STYLES AND ISSUES IN AGING) - Hardcover

Brody MSW DSc (Hon.), Elaine M.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0826163815 ISBN 13: 9780826163813

Publisher: Springer Publishing Company, 2003

Synopsis

Women in the Middlewas so-named because daughters, who are the main caregivers to elderly disabled parents, most often in their middle years, are caught in the middle of multiple competing demands on their time and energy. Since the first edition, women's responsibilities and the pressures they have experienced have increased and intensified. Dr. Brody revisits this phenomenon in this new, updated edition of her ground-breaking work.

Women in the Middle, 2/e, describes and discusses the caregiving women's subjective feelings, experiences, and problems, and the effects on their mental and physical well-being, life styles, family relationships, and vocational activities. These case studies and narratives present an insider's view of the harsh and sometimes joyful experience of caregiving.

Special attention is given to the changing face of social, economic, and environmental conditions, as well as the diversity of the caregiver, in which caregiving, in which caregiving takes place.

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From the Publisher

"[Brody's] perspective is timely and highly welcome at this time. ...She has enriched our field and our lives..." -From the Foreword by Barry D. Lebowitz, PhD, Deputy Director, Sam and Rose Stein Institute for Research on Aging, University of California, San Diego, School of Medicine and Former Chief, Adult and Geriatric Treatment and Preventive Interventions Research Branch, National Institute of Mental Health.

About the Author

Elaine M. Brody, M.S.W., DSc (Hon), was, for many years, Director of the Department of Human Resources and Associate Director of Research at the Philadelphia Geriatric Center. She also was Clinical Professor of Psychiatry in the Department of Psychiatry at the Medical College of Pennsylvania and Adjunct Associate Professor of Social Work in Psychiatry in the School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. Mrs. Brody is a past President of The Gerontological Society of America (1980). She received an honorary doctorate, DSc, from The Medical College of Pennsylvania in 1987, and has been elected a Distinguished Scholar of the National Academies of Social Work Practice. Among the many awards she received are the 1985 Brookdale Award of The Gerontological Society of America, the 1983 Donald P. Kent Award of The Gerontological Society of America, and the 1982 Distinguished Alumni Award of the University of Pittsburgh School of Social Work. Mrs. Brody was selected as a Woman of the Year by Ms. Magazine, January 1986. She has served on the editorial boards of many professional journals and on Peer Review Committees at the National Institute of Mental Health, the Administration on Aging, and a number of foundations. She was a member of the Congressional Advisory Panel on Alzheimer's Disease and of the Brookings Institution Advisory Panel on Long Term Care. Her publications include six books, many book chapters, and over 200 journal articles. She has directed 18 federally financed research studies on subjects such as Individualized Treatment of Mentally Impaired Aged; Mental and Physical Health Practice of Older People; The Dependent Elderly and Women's Changing Roles; Women, Work, and Care of the Aged; Parent Care, Sibling Relationships and Mental Health; and Martial Status, Parent Care and Mental Health. She directed a large demonstration of a multi-service respite program for family caregivers of older people with Alzheimer's disease. Mrs. Brody has lectured at scores of universities; consulted with many foundations, hospitals, governmental and voluntary agencies; and testified many times before Committees of the United States House of Representatives and the United States Senate.

About this edition

• Publisher: Springer Publishing Company
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0826163815
• ISBN 13: 9780826163813
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 400