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The Gerontologist, Vol 33, Issue 3 315-323, Copyright © 1993 by The Gerontological Society of America

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Adult children's perceptions of their responsibility to provide care for dependent elderly parents

C Wolfson, R Handfield-Jones, KC Glass, J McClaran and E Keyserlingk
Department of Family Medicine, Montreal General Hospital, Quebec, Canada.

We examined how adult children in Canada whose parents were hospitalized in an acute care setting perceived responsibility for their parents' care. Using a visual analogue scale, adult children rated the amount of financial, emotional, and physical support families "should" and "could" give to elderly persons described in four vignettes. All scores were high, with "should" consistently higher than "could" for every vignette and for each of the three types of support. For daughters, the more aggressive the parent, the lower the "should" score for financial support. The same relationship was observed for incontinence and these findings were consistent over all four vignettes.


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