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Foreword, B.D Lebowitz Introduction Part I: Background Women in the Middle: How it Happened Scope of Parent Care Effects of Caregiving Values About Women's Roles and Care of the Aged Part II: Subjective Experiences Introduction On Becoming the Primary Care giver: The Caregiving Daughters and Their Siblings Six Major Subjective Themes and A Variation Part III: Diversity Among Caregivers Diversity in Age and Stages Diversity in Marital Status: Introduction and a Research Survey Married Daughters and Their Husbands and Children: 10 Case Histories and a Comment Daughters Without Partners Caregiving Daughters-in-Law (The Proxy Primaries): 7 Case Histories and a Comment Commentary on Marital Status and Parent Care Diversity in Work Status Ethnic and Racial Diversity, A.R. Saperstein Part IV: Services and Living Arrangements for Older People Effects on Women in the Middle Nursing Home Placement: A Painful Decision Community Services and Residential Settings, A.R. Saperstein Part V: Unfinished Business Unfinished Business on the Parent-Care Agenda References
Elaine M. Brody, MSW, DSc (Hon), was, for many years, Director of the Department of Human Resources and Associate Director of Research at the Philadelphia Geriatric Center. She also was Clinical Professor of Psychiatry in the Department of Psychiatry at the Medical College of Pennsylvania and Adjunct Associate Professor of Social Work in Psychiatry in the School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. Mrs. Brody is a past President of The Gerontological Society of America (1980).