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Examining In-Home Care Needs and Work Responsibilities for Parents with Children with A Rare Trisomy Condition
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Bruns, Deborah A. Schrey, Carly |
| Copyright Year | 2012 |
| Abstract | AbstractBalancing in-home care needs and work responsibilities can present many challenges for families. This can be especially true with a family member with a disability. Mothers with children with severe disabilities are often not able to continue working in the job they held before their children’s birth or had hoped to attain after becoming a parent. The present study explores parent perspectives related to in-home care needs and work responsibilities for their child with a rare trisomy condition, themselves, and their spouses. Results describe the interplay of children’s daily caregiving needs, time management, mothers’ change in work status, and spouse’s work outside the home. Daily caregiving largely contributed to mothers not working outside of the home due to their children’s basic and medically related needs as well as a lack of suitable caregivers. In addition, parents in this study often had to reduce work hours or leave the workforce to care for their child. A call for additional research is... |
| Starting Page | 159 |
| Ending Page | 175 |
| Page Count | 17 |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| DOI | 10.1179/2047387712Y.0000000002 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://trisomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Examining-in-home-care-needs-Bruns-Schrey-October-2012.pdf |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://doi.org/10.1179/2047387712Y.0000000002 |
| Volume Number | 58 |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
