Nowakowski Alexandra C H, Sumerau J E
Florida State University, FL, USA.
University of Tampa, FL, USA.
Gerontol Geriatr Med. 2017 Nov 1;3:2333721417737679. doi: 10.1177/2333721417737679. eCollection 2017 Jan-Dec.
Prior literature on illness management within intimate relationships demonstrates a variety of benefits from supportive partnership. Indeed, much of the earliest research in this field engaged older adults with and without chronic conditions. However, this pioneering literature gave little consideration to relationships in which multiple partners were coping with chronic illness. By contrast, the majority of published manuscripts presented a "sick partner/well partner" model in which caregiving flowed only in one direction. Yet this idea makes little sense in the context of contemporaneous data on population aging and health as a majority of older adults now live with at least one chronic condition. Scholars still have not delved explicitly into the experiences of the vast population of older relationship partners who are managing chronic conditions simultaneously. We thus welcome readers to this special content collection on .
先前关于亲密关系中疾病管理的文献表明，支持性伴侣关系有诸多益处。事实上，该领域许多早期研究涉及患有和未患有慢性病的老年人。然而，这一开创性文献很少考虑多个伴侣共同应对慢性病的关系。相比之下，大多数已发表的手稿呈现了一种“患病伴侣/健康伴侣”模式，即照顾仅单向流动。然而，鉴于目前大多数老年人至少患有一种慢性病的人口老龄化和健康方面的同期数据，这种观点几乎没有意义。学者们仍未明确深入研究大量同时管理慢性病的老年伴侣的经历。因此，我们欢迎读者阅读关于……的这个特别内容集。
