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Later-Life Social Support and Service Provision in Diverse and
Vulnerable Populations offers current, multidisciplinary
perspectives on social support and service provision to older
Americans. The chapters trace how our understanding of social
support among older adults has developed over the past 40 years and
explore current gerontological research in the area. They consider
how informal care arrangements articulate with formal long-term
care policies and programs to provide support to the diverse
population of older Americans. They also emphasize heterogeneity in
the composition of support networks, particularly in relation to
gender, sexual orientation, race/ethnicity, and immigrant status.
Collectively, the chapters provide insight into the complexity of
older adult's social support networks that can be used to improve
the services provided to caregivers and care recipients as well as
the policies that promote high-quality support to people of all
ages who are in need of assistance.
This book is a collection of original essays on the meaning of providing care. These essays address not only the work of caring for the elderly, but also the work of caring for children, the infirm and those with disabilities. The essays approach the topic from an ethical standpoint and also from a more practical, feminist and sociological point of view. The main goal of this book is to re-conceive the notion of care work, beginning with steps as simple as replacing the phrase 'caregiver' with the phrase 'care worker'.
The contributors to Grandparenting in the United States, edited by
Madonna Harrington Meyer and Ynesse Abdul-Malak of Syracuse
University, use a variety of quantitative and qualitative data sets
to assess how grandparenting, and its impacts, vary by living
arrangements, economic status, education, gender, race, ethnicity,
and other stratifying variables. Some papers assess how the
provision of financial assistance, particularly during economic
downturns, may be easily absorbed or financially detrimental.
Others demonstrate how immigrant grandparents navigate multiple
sets of cultural expectations to provide childcare to their
grandchildren. Some show how Hispanic grandparents acculturation
level is linked to childcare and financial transfer across
generations. Others emphasize the extent to which schoolchildren
with disabilities are more likely to receive grandparent care,
particularly if the mother is single. Some reveal how custodial
grandmothers are significantly more likely to be poor, face social
isolation, and report poorer health. Others enumerate the positive,
and negative, impacts of frequent interaction for both generations.
In total, the volume underscores the impact of evolving
diversification of grandparenting across multiple generations.
Childhood disabilities, particularly cognitive disabilities, are on
the rise yet social programs and services to help US families
respond to disabilities are not. Many families turn to grandparents
for assistance juggling work, family responsibilities, and
specialized therapies. This book is based on in-depth interviews
with grandparents who are providing at least some care to
grandchildren with disabilities. The analyses will help to better
understand (1) under what conditions grandparents provide care and
support, (2) what types and intensities of care and support
grandparents provide, and (3) the impact of that care and support
on grandparents' social, emotional, physical, and financial
wellbeing. In this fascinating and provocative book, Madonna
Harrington Meyer and Ynesse Abdul-Malak take readers on a deep dive
into the complex lives of grandparents who care for their disabled
grandchildren. In Grandparenting Children with Disabilities, their
interviews reveal the joy, meaning, and purpose grandparents find
in caregiving, the challenges and frustrations they encounter, and
the many ways they compromise their own health and well-being for
the sake of their grandchildren. Drawing from theories of
cumulative inequality and from their deep knowledge of the US
policy context, the authors lay bare the systemic failures that
leave families of children with disabilities without adequate
support and that place the most vulnerable among them at grave
physical, emotional, and financial risk... Jane McLeod, Provost
Professor, Indiana University Grandparents in the U.S. already take
on far more parenting responsibilities as compared to their peers
in other countries. Grandparenting Children with Disabilities
demonstrates that the intensity of these responsibilities is
compounded for those whose grandchildren have disabilities given
limited policy supports and a society still largely unaccommodating
to those with disabilities. This book beautifully navigates the
tension between the love these grandparents have for their
grandchildren and the challenges they face caring for them. Pamela
Herd, Professor, Georgetown University Grandparenting Children with
Disabilities offers important insights about the lived experience
of older adults who care for and care about their
grandchildren...The authors skillfully integrate the stories they
tell with consideration of macro social structural influences and
life course perspectives... I recommend it highly! Eva Kahana,
Distinguished University Professor, Case Western Reserve
Winner of the 2014 Richard Kalish Innovative Publication Award
presented by the Gerontological Society of America Young working
mothers are not the only ones who are struggling to balance family
life and careers. Many middle-aged American women face this dilemma
as they provide routine childcare for their grandchildren while
pursuing careers and trying to make ends meet. Employment among
middle-aged women is at an all-time high. In the same way that
women who reduce employment hours when raising their young children
experience reductions in salary, savings, and public and private
pensions, the mothers of those same women, as grandmothers, are
rearranging hours to take care of their grandchildren, experiencing
additional loss of salary and reduced old age pension accumulation.
Madonna Harrington Meyer's Grandmothers at Work, based primarily on
48 in-depth interviews conducted in 2009-2012 with grandmothers who
juggle working and minding their grandchildren, explores the
strategies of, and impacts on, working grandmothers. While all of
the grandmothers in Harrington Meyer's book are pleased to spend
time with their grandchildren, many are readjusting work schedules,
using vacation and sick leave time, gutting retirement accounts,
and postponing retirement to care for grandchildren. Some simply
want to do this; others do it in part because they have more
security and flexibility on the job than their daughters do at
their relatively new jobs. Many are sequential grandmothers, caring
for one grandchild after the other as they are born, in very
intensive forms of grandmothering. Some also report that they are
putting off retirement out of economic necessity, in part due to
the amount of financial help they are providing their
grandchildren. Finally, some are also caring for their frail older
parents or ailing spouses just as intensively. Most expect to
continue feeling the pinch of paid and unpaid work for many years
before their retirement. Grandmothers at Work provides a unique
perspective on a phenomenon faced by millions of women in America
today.
Later-Life Social Support and Service Provision in Diverse and
Vulnerable Populations offers current, multidisciplinary
perspectives on social support and service provision to older
Americans. The chapters trace how our understanding of social
support among older adults has developed over the past 40 years and
explore current gerontological research in the area. They consider
how informal care arrangements articulate with formal long-term
care policies and programs to provide support to the diverse
population of older Americans. They also emphasize heterogeneity in
the composition of support networks, particularly in relation to
gender, sexual orientation, race/ethnicity, and immigrant status.
Collectively, the chapters provide insight into the complexity of
older adult's social support networks that can be used to improve
the services provided to caregivers and care recipients as well as
the policies that promote high-quality support to people of all
ages who are in need of assistance.
Childhood disabilities, particularly cognitive disabilities, are on
the rise yet social programs and services to help US families
respond to disabilities are not. Many families turn to grandparents
for assistance juggling work, family responsibilities, and
specialized therapies. This book is based on in-depth interviews
with grandparents who are providing at least some care to
grandchildren with disabilities. The analyses will help to better
understand (1) under what conditions grandparents provide care and
support, (2) what types and intensities of care and support
grandparents provide, and (3) the impact of that care and support
on grandparents' social, emotional, physical, and financial
wellbeing. In this fascinating and provocative book, Madonna
Harrington Meyer and Ynesse Abdul-Malak take readers on a deep dive
into the complex lives of grandparents who care for their disabled
grandchildren. In Grandparenting Children with Disabilities, their
interviews reveal the joy, meaning, and purpose grandparents find
in caregiving, the challenges and frustrations they encounter, and
the many ways they compromise their own health and well-being for
the sake of their grandchildren. Drawing from theories of
cumulative inequality and from their deep knowledge of the US
policy context, the authors lay bare the systemic failures that
leave families of children with disabilities without adequate
support and that place the most vulnerable among them at grave
physical, emotional, and financial risk... Jane McLeod, Provost
Professor, Indiana University Grandparents in the U.S. already take
on far more parenting responsibilities as compared to their peers
in other countries. Grandparenting Children with Disabilities
demonstrates that the intensity of these responsibilities is
compounded for those whose grandchildren have disabilities given
limited policy supports and a society still largely unaccommodating
to those with disabilities. This book beautifully navigates the
tension between the love these grandparents have for their
grandchildren and the challenges they face caring for them. Pamela
Herd, Professor, Georgetown University Grandparenting Children with
Disabilities offers important insights about the lived experience
of older adults who care for and care about their
grandchildren...The authors skillfully integrate the stories they
tell with consideration of macro social structural influences and
life course perspectives... I recommend it highly! Eva Kahana,
Distinguished University Professor, Case Western Reserve
Winner of the 2014 Richard Kalish Innovative Publication Award
presented by the Gerontological Society of America Young working
mothers are not the only ones who are struggling to balance family
life and careers. Many middle-aged American women face this dilemma
as they provide routine childcare for their grandchildren while
pursuing careers and trying to make ends meet. Employment among
middle-aged women is at an all-time high. In the same way that
women who reduce employment hours when raising their young children
experience reductions in salary, savings, and public and private
pensions, the mothers of those same women, as grandmothers, are
rearranging hours to take care of their grandchildren, experiencing
additional loss of salary and reduced old age pension accumulation.
Madonna Harrington Meyer's Grandmothers at Work, based primarily on
48 in-depth interviews conducted in 2009-2012 with grandmothers who
juggle working and minding their grandchildren, explores the
strategies of, and impacts on, working grandmothers. While all of
the grandmothers in Harrington Meyer's book are pleased to spend
time with their grandchildren, many are readjusting work schedules,
using vacation and sick leave time, gutting retirement accounts,
and postponing retirement to care for grandchildren. Some simply
want to do this; others do it in part because they have more
security and flexibility on the job than their daughters do at
their relatively new jobs. Many are sequential grandmothers, caring
for one grandchild after the other as they are born, in very
intensive forms of grandmothering. Some also report that they are
putting off retirement out of economic necessity, in part due to
the amount of financial help they are providing their
grandchildren. Finally, some are also caring for their frail older
parents or ailing spouses just as intensively. Most expect to
continue feeling the pinch of paid and unpaid work for many years
before their retirement. Grandmothers at Work provides a unique
perspective on a phenomenon faced by millions of women in America
today.
The contributors to Grandparenting in the United States, edited by
Madonna Harrington Meyer and Ynesse Abdul-Malak of Syracuse
University, use a variety of quantitative and qualitative data sets
to assess how grandparenting, and its impacts, vary by living
arrangements, economic status, education, gender, race, ethnicity,
and other stratifying variables. Some papers assess how the
provision of financial assistance, particularly during economic
downturns, may be easily absorbed or financially detrimental.
Others demonstrate how immigrant grandparents navigate multiple
sets of cultural expectations to provide childcare to their
grandchildren. Some show how Hispanic grandparents acculturation
level is linked to childcare and financial transfer across
generations. Others emphasize the extent to which schoolchildren
with disabilities are more likely to receive grandparent care,
particularly if the mother is single. Some reveal how custodial
grandmothers are significantly more likely to be poor, face social
isolation, and report poorer health. Others enumerate the positive,
and negative, impacts of frequent interaction for both generations.
In total, the volume underscores the impact of evolving
diversification of grandparenting across multiple generations.
Written by established and emerging leaders in a broad array of
disciplines, this two-volume set provides undergraduate and
graduate students, scholars, professionals, and policymakers with
an overview of the field of aging that examines the social
landscape as well as key changes, challenges, and solutions. The
people who make up the rapidly growing population of Americans over
age 65 are changing, and as a result, our nation will change. This
shift presents new issues, controversies, and challenges that
affect health, wellness, welfare, retirement, politics, and
economics. This two-volume work examines where we are and where we
are headed, paying careful attention to the differential impacts of
gender, race, class, marital status, and other social variables. It
considers key changes in demographics, old-age policies, families,
work, and death and dying. Volume one covers an array of
demographic issues, policies, and politics, highlighting how
factors such as gender and race shape families, income, retirement,
immigrants, and veterans across the life course. The second volume
covers education, religion, volunteering, exercise, nutrition, and
health care policies across the life course. Topics addressed
include the old-age welfare state, the extension of retirement age,
home care, care work, nursing home care, end of life planning, and
euthanasia. Provides an up-to-date, multidisciplinary, and
forward-thinking look at the key areas and issues in gerontology
Highlights links between topics and relevant demographic, social,
economic, and health trends with implications for immediate and
long-range work in aging Includes contributions from experts in the
fields of sociology, psychology, medicine, education, politics, and
government Identifies the key changes, challenges, and solutions in
each subfield Includes an appendix containing lists of descriptions
and contact information for aging organizations as well as an
annotated list of documentaries about aging
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