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Family-centered informal support networks of Korean elderly: The resistance of cultural traditions.
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K Koreans' resilient family networks and their nationwide efforts to develop services for the elderly and to preserve the tradition of at-home parent caring are discussed.Abstract:
Little has been written about informal support of elderly people in Korea, an East Asian nation with a long tradition of family-centered parent care. Based on data on 450 elderly persons, this paper reports on the patterns of informal support networks of the elderly and support relationships in these networks. Koreans' resilient family networks and their nationwide efforts to develop services for the elderly and to preserve the tradition of at-home parent caring are discussed.read more
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Differences in familism values and caregiving outcomes among Korean, Korean American, and White American dementia caregivers.
TL;DR: There is a need for greater specificity in theories aboutfamilism values, with attention to the specific meaning of familism in different cultures, as Koreans and Korean Americans reported higher levels of burden.
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Social Networks and Support: A Comparison of African Americans, Asian Americans, Caucasians, and Hispanics
Hyoun K. Kim,Patrick C. McKenry +1 more
TL;DR: This paper examined cultural variations in social networks and support using data from the National Survey of Families and Households (1988) and found that the responses of African American (n=2,391), Asian (n =...
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Caregiving In Transnational Context: “My Wings Have Been Cut; Where Can I Fly?”
TL;DR: This paper explored the experiences of 29 South Asian and Chinese Canadian female family caregivers and found that caregiving was central to their role as women and members of their ethnocultural community, and women were often engaged in paid labor that compressed the time available to fulfill their duties as caregivers.
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Stress, Coping, and Depression Among Elderly Korean Immigrants
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Culture and dementia: accounts by family caregivers and health professionals for dementia-affected elders in South Korea.
Yeon Kyung Chee,Sue E. Levkoff +1 more
TL;DR: Findings from in-depth qualitative interviews with fifteen family caregivers and health professionals on perceptions of dementia among Korean family caregivers, cultural influences on caregiving, and status of the development and utilization of services for the older population withdementia in Korea are presented.
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