McCarty Ellen F, Hendricks Constance S, Hendricks Denisha L, McCarty Kathleen M
Salve Regina University.
Online J Health Ethics. 2008;5(1). doi: 10.18785/ojhe.0501.03.
The elderly are growing rapidly today as life expectancy increases. As this longevity has increased, so has the need for filial caregivers. While much has been written about caregiving stress, little has been written regarding the ethical dimensions of filial responsibility and daughter and son caregivers' perceptions of responsibility and moral demands. This paper will address the concept of family caregiving and contextual family characteristics. Family characteristics will expand awareness of the interrelationship value between the nature of the prior filial relationship, image of caregiving, and ethical views that underscore acceptance of the filial obligation. An explanation of both the interview process and selected measurements that speak to ethical perspective, sense of caregiving image, and expectations of filial caregiving will also be addressed. Therefore, the purpose of this paper is to elucidate how adult children may be helped in an anticipatory and proactive manner as more and more adult children take on parent care for longer durations of time.
随着预期寿命的增加，如今老年人数量正在迅速增长。随着寿命的延长，对孝顺照顾者的需求也在增加。虽然关于照顾压力的著述颇多，但关于孝顺责任的伦理层面以及子女照顾者对责任和道德要求的看法却鲜有论及。本文将探讨家庭照顾的概念以及相关的家庭特征。家庭特征将拓展人们对先前孝顺关系的性质、照顾形象以及强调接受孝顺义务的伦理观念之间相互关系价值的认识。同时，还将阐述访谈过程以及一些与伦理视角、照顾形象意识和孝顺照顾期望相关的选定测量方法。因此，本文的目的是阐明如何以一种前瞻性和积极主动的方式帮助成年子女，因为越来越多的成年子女要承担起照顾父母的更长时间的责任。
