Local nursing home has several younger adult patients with long-term mental
or physical disabilities.  Elderly parents of these patients have cared for
them at home until they became unable to do so.  Staff see a great deal of
stress, guilt, conflict with other family members, difficulty "surrendering"
the care of their children, etc.  They would like info to help them support
and educate the parents, encouraging them to care for themselves, have other
healthy relationships, etc.  The patients are typically profoundly disabled
and noncommunicative.  Am floundering with the search - Medline terms for
parenting, parent-child relations, adult children, etc. combined with
disabilities, institutionalization, long-term care, nursing homes, etc.
isn't working so well as I can't separate out the adult children coping with
admitting their parents, rather than the other way around.  I was able to
locate a handful of appropriate articles, but not many.  I have pay-go
access to PsycInfo, but don't want to spend big bucks with such an
ill-crafted search strategy.  Suggestions, anyone?  Many thanks!

-- 
Julie Stielstra, MLS
Manager, Knowledge Resource Library
Central DuPage Hospital
25 N Winfield Rd
Winfield, IL 60190
phone 630-933-4536
fax     630-933-4530
email jstielstra [ at ]  gmail.com

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