Intergenerational Help Exchange: The Influence of Caregiving on Mothers' Perceptions

According to an abstract submitted by the author to the 48th Annual Meeting of the Gerontological Society of America, held November 15-19, 1995, in Los Angeles, California, "The specific question raised in this study is: Do perceptions of help provided to and received from adult children differ for mothers who are and are not caregivers to aging parents' Subjects were drawn from the 1987-88 (first wave) National Survey of Families and Households conducted by researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The present study compared 126 female caregivers who have an adult-child aged 19 or older to noncaregivers who are similar in every other respect. Four dimensions of the help...

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