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Aging Parents of Adults with Disabilities the Gratifications and Frustrations

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IL-Institute on Disability & Human Development, UCEDD/LEND

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2007

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Greenberg, J.S., Seltzer, M.M., & Greenley, J.R. (1993). Aging parents of adults with disabilities: The gratifications and frustrations of later life caregiving. The Gerontologist, 33, 542-550. Used stress process model to investigate impact of later-life caregiving on 105 mothers of adult children with mental illness and 208 mothers of adult children with mental retardation. Mothers of persons with mental illness reported higher levels of frustrations and lower levels of gratifications. Adult child's behavior problems were strongest predictors of maternal gratification. (Author/NB)

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