Collins Cynthia R
Loyola University New Orleans, College of Social Sciences/School of Nursing, New Orleans, LA, USA.
J Multidiscip Healthc. 2014 Nov 11;7:525-31. doi: 10.2147/JMDH.S68350. eCollection 2014.
Emerging practice research on filial sources of health care support has indicated that there is a growing trend for sons to assume some responsibility for the health care needs of their aging parents. The purpose of this work is to propose that outcomes observed through a secondary analysis of data from a previous mixed methods research project, conducted with a sample of 60 elderly women residing in independent living centers, supports this concept in elder care. The present study is a retrospective interpretation utilizing the original database to examine the new question, "What specific roles do sons play in caregiving of their elderly mothers?" While daughters presently continue to emerge in existing health care studies as the primary care provider, there is a significant pattern in these data for older patients to depend upon sons for a variety of instrumental activities of daily living. As the baby-boomers age, there is more of cohort trend for their families to be smaller, adult daughters to be employed, and for adult children to be more geographically mobile. These factors may combine to make health care support networks more limited for the current aging population, challenging the elderly and their health care providers to revisit the cultural gender norms that are used to identify caregivers.
关于医疗保健支持的孝顺来源的新兴实践研究表明，儿子为年迈父母的医疗保健需求承担一定责任的趋势正在增加。这项工作的目的是提出，通过对之前一个混合方法研究项目的数据进行二次分析观察到的结果，该项目以居住在独立生活中心的60名老年女性为样本，在老年护理中支持了这一概念。本研究是一项回顾性解读，利用原始数据库来研究新问题：“儿子在照顾年迈母亲方面扮演着哪些具体角色？”虽然在现有医疗保健研究中，女儿目前仍然作为主要护理提供者出现，但在这些数据中，老年患者在各种日常生活工具性活动方面依赖儿子的模式非常显著。随着婴儿潮一代的老龄化，他们的家庭规模更小、成年女儿就业、成年子女在地理上更具流动性的趋势更加明显。这些因素可能共同导致当前老年人口的医疗保健支持网络更加有限，这对老年人及其医疗保健提供者提出了挑战，促使他们重新审视用于确定护理人员的文化性别规范。
