For Caregivers » adult children http://forcaregivers.com Resources and Information that Empower Caregivers Thu, 02 Sep 2010 07:24:41 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Sharing the Caregiving Role http://forcaregivers.com/sharingthecaregiverrole/ http://forcaregivers.com/sharingthecaregiverrole/#comments Sat, 07 Feb 2009 06:00:14 +0000 admin http://forcaregivers.com/?p=71 When a parent becomes incapable of caring for themselves what role should the children play in their care? Too often, the burden of looking after that parent falls on the shoulders of a single child, no matter how many siblings there are. Research has shown that the oldest daughter in a family is the person who is most likely to step in and take on the role of caregiver, especially when a parent needs extensive, live-in care when they become completely unable to care for themselves.

But what drives this situation? Does the primary caregiver somehow freeze the other siblings out of the care? Are they unwilling to help? Are they unaware of how just how much care the parent actually needs?

The answers are not simple. It seems to researchers that when one child takes on the responsibility of caring for a parent, the other siblings tend to think that they

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