© 1996 The Gerontological Society of America
The Transitions of Caregiving: Subjective and Objective Definitions1
2 Waisman Center and School of Social Work, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Address correspondence to Marsha Mailick Seltzer, PhD, University of Wisconsin-Madison, S102 Waisman Center, 1500 Highland Avenue, Madison, Wl 53705.
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We examined two indicators of the temporal trajectory of caregiving: (a) duration of caregiving and (b) the perception that caregiving is a new role, an ongoing role, or a role that will end soon. The association between the two depended on the type of onset of the caregiving role (abrupt or gradual) and the type of kinship relationship with the care recipient (wife or daughter). Daughters in later stages of caregiving had a more distant relationship with the care recipient and more subjective burden than daughters in the earlier stages. Wives evidenced the opposite pattern, as those who had been providing care for a longer duration of time reported less burden, and those who perceived themselves to be in the later stages of caregiving reported a closer relationship with their husband.
Keywords: Informal support, Burden, Relationship closeness
Received August 7, 1995; Accepted March 28, 1996
1 This research was supported in part by the National Institute on Aging (R01 AG-09388). An earlier version of this article was presented at the 47th Annual Meeting of The Gerontological Society of America, Atlanta, GA, November 20,1994.
The authors are grateful to the Wisconsin Bureau on Aging for its support of this project, to Barbara Larson and Renee Lewandowski who coordinated the data collection, and to Marty Wyngaarden Krauss, Jan Greenberg, and two anonymous reviewers who read an earlier version of the manuscript.
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