When We’d Kill for Stability, We Get Change & When We’d Kill for Change, We Get Stability: The Voices of Caregivers and Care Receivers

Session Submission Type: Panel Discussion

Abstract

Hear women’s voices from online support groups, interviews, stories, and diaries, as they share the life-changing challenges, frustrations, and joys of being long-term caregivers and care receivers. More than men do, women often provide care for children, parents, friends, partners, or colleagues in poor health. Such caregiving can harm women’s careers, health, and relationships. Later in life, when women find themselves as care recipients, they must cope with losses of mobility, independence, and identity.

Sub Unit

• Women's Caucus

Cosponsor

• Communication and Aging Division

Chairs

• Phyllis Carlin, University of Northern Iowa

• Mei-Chen Lin, Kent State University

Presenters

• Nichole Egbert, Kent State University

• Mary Giffin, Walsh University

• Cynthia Wise Staudt, Walsh University

• Margaret Wick, College of Wooster

Session Organizer

• Margaret Wick, College of Wooster