A Feasibility Study of a Parent Care Planning Model with Two Faith-Based Communities

Autor:	Lucinda Lee Roff, Helen W. Harris Msw, Michael W. Parker Dsw, Dennis R. Myers, David L. Klemmack
Rok vydání:	2004
Předmět:	Readiness assessment Medical education business.industry media_common.quotation_subject Religious studies Task (project management) Faith Nursing Protestantism Normative Medicine The Internet Life-span and Life-course Studies business media_common
Zdroj:	Journal of Religion, Spirituality & Aging. 17:39-53
ISSN:	1552-8049 1552-8030
DOI:	10.1300/j496v17n01_03
Popis:	SUMMARY Parent care is a normative, mid-life responsibility for most American families, but religious communities need evidence-based models to help prepare congregational members for these religiously endorsed obligations. The purposes of this article are to discuss caregiving as a developmental task deserving attention by religious leaders; to briefly describe an efficacious parent care model for use by congregations; and to review the results from a feasibility study of the model with participants from two faith-based communities. Members of Protestant congregations in Alabama and Texas attended parent care readiness workshops, where they completed a structured Parent Care Readiness Assessment. Following completion, they were given evidence-based information on how to complete salient parent care tasks through lecture/discussions provided by workshop leaders and through a parent care CD-ROM with Internet links that they could use at home. At the Texas site, adult children and aging parent participants ...
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