Groundbreaking information for caregivers-and those receiving care
It is more common now than ever before for partners, family
members, and friends to provide informal care, yet caregiving in
the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) communities has
received little attention. Caregiving with Pride is the pioneering
examination of caregiving experiences in the LGBT population. This
important text also provides a frank discussion of the issues
involved in needing and receiving care as well. Comprehensive and
up-to-date, this both a timely account of an important field and
practical information for implementing change. Unique in its focus
and scope, Caregiving with Pride offers readers original research
and new summaries and analyses of existing literature. With a
wide-ranging approach that is both readable and enlightening, this
essential collection recognizes the changing nature of families as
central to the issues of caregiving and LGBT communities. It
features articles that insist on and illustrate the importance of
taking both identity issues and socio-cultural policy contexts of
caregiving into account. While maintaining a multifaceted
biopsychosocial perspective that is critical to understanding the
varied aspects of this topic, contributors discuss: the prevalence
of caregiving with LGBT communities health issues and the needs of
those requiring care the unique risk and protective factors
impacting HIV/AIDS caregivers the psychological effects - positive
and negative - of caregiving family and personal - "chosen family"
- relationships interactions with formal systems of health and
long-term care effects of history and social stigma on those
needing and giving care how current social policies impede LGBT
people in their access to care the ways established medical
guidelines hinder LGBT caregivers in their efforts to help existing
interventions and opportunities to better sever these communities
and much more! While Caregiving with Pride provides a detailed
perspective of the current state of this often overlooked field, it
also looks ahead and outlines a practical, useable blueprint for
future research, services, and policies in marginalized
communities. As an informative stand-alone resource, Caregiving
with Pride is essential for gerontologists, sociologists,
historians, social workers, psychologists, educators, researchers,
and policy makers. In addition, this collection is ideal as a
supplementary text for students of aging, women studies, GLBT
studies, sociology, and health studies as well as the larger GLBT
community.
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