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Caring for Our Kupuna: Building an Aging in Place Movement in Hawaii [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Government funding for elder care in the United States is becoming increasingly strained as the number of seniors and the cost of healthcare rise. Medicare paid $560 billion for hospital visits, prescription drugs, and other services in 2010 and expects ...

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Maternal and Paternal Extended Family Support Among Children in Foster Care: Associations With Internalizing Symptoms Trajectories

open access: yesChild &Family Social Work, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Prior work suggests that children who are supported by their extended family kinship network experience fewer internalizing problems, with most of this support coming from the maternal side of the family. However, less is known about the unique contributions to well‐being associated with maternal versus paternal extended family support among ...
Kimberly R. Davenport   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Modes de recours aux dispositifs de répit par les aidants familiaux de proches atteints de la maladie d’Alzheimer

open access: yesEnfances, Familles, Générations, 2017
Research Framework: Since 2000, Alzheimer's disease has been recognized as a major public health issue by public authorities and has been the target of significant public investment.
Arnaud Campéon, Céline Rothé
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Characteristics of Emotional Support Provided by Adolescent Young Carers: A Qualitative Exploratory Study

open access: yesChild &Family Social Work, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Adolescent young carers (AYCs), aged 12–17, provide regular, unpaid support to a family member with a chronic illness or disability. Among the various forms of help they provide, emotional support (ES) plays a central role—demanding strong emotional and psychological investment yet remaining underexplored during adolescence, a period of ...
Céline Lacombe   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Temporalities of Trauma: An Exploration of the Role of Socio‐Temporal Rhythms in Foster Carer Experiences of Vicarious Trauma

open access: yesChild &Family Social Work, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Foster carers raise children whose trauma backgrounds likely result in behaviours that are not simply challenging, but which can also result in vicarious trauma for foster carers. While a growing body of research has explored vicarious trauma among foster carers, to date research has not explored how temporal shifts produced by raising foster ...
Sam Arthurson   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Model for Collaboration and Results: How Cross-agency Collaboration Helped Hampton, Va., Build a Broad Array of Child and Family Services [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
This report highlights the highly successful experiences of child-serving agencies that are collaborating in Hampton, Virginia, to achieve better outcomes for children and Families.
Tamara Horne
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A Bathroom of One's Own: Intimacies of Austerity and Austerities of Intimacy in Barbara Pym's Fiction

open access: yesCritical Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract ‘I have to share a bathroom’, I had so often murmured, almost with shame, as if I personally had been found unworthy of a bathroom of my own. Barbara Pym, Excellent Women (1952) For a single woman of a certain age, living alone in postwar London, austerity was more than a set of political and economic imperatives.
Charlotte Charteris
wiley   +1 more source

Supporting disabled children and their families in Scotland: A review of policy and research [PDF]

open access: yes, 2000
The Joseph Rowntree Foundation has been supporting research about disabled children and their families for a number of years. An earlier Foundations covering the messages from these projects has already been published (1).
Stalker, Kirsten
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Mental health difficulties in cerebral palsy: A qualitative study of young people's and parents' perspectives

open access: yesDevelopmental Medicine &Child Neurology, EarlyView.
Abstract Aim To explore the experiences of mental health difficulties and access to mental health support among young people with cerebral palsy (CP). Method We used a qualitative descriptive design. Participants were young people with CP aged 13 to 25 years and parents of children with CP (6–25 years).
Manjula Manikandan   +15 more
wiley   +1 more source

Managed decline: Muddling through with the Sterling (dis)Agreements, 1968–74

open access: yesThe Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract How do policymakers manage the decline of an international currency? This paper revisits the view that the ‘Sterling Agreements’ of 1968–74 – bilateral contracts between the UK and sterling‐holding governments – marked a successful paradigm shift towards sterling's managed ‘retirement’.
Alan de Bromhead   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

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