Hosp Community Psychiatry 38:1063-1070, October 1987
© 1987 American Psychiatric Association
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Aging Parents as Caregivers of Mentally Ill Adult Children: An Emerging Social Problem
Harriet P. Lefley Ph.D.1
1 Department of psychiatry at the University of Miami School of Medicine, P.O. Box 016960, Miami, Florida 33101
More than one-third of long-term mentally ill adults live with their families, most with aging parents, a situation that accentuates the need for residential alternatives to home care for deinstitutionalized patients who will out-live their caregivers. The role of parenting mentally disabled adults may also impose undue stress on elderly persons. Objective and subjective parental burden, including fears for the patient's future, are increased by the mental health system's failure to offer education, support, training in problem solving, and a collaborative role in discharge planning to family members. Social policy implications of considering families as primary caregivers include the danger that government will be relieved of responsibility for care of the mentally ill, the creation of a potentially at-risk population among aging parents and other family members affected by the stresses of caregiving, and the reduction of the patient's potential for independent living.
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