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Type of Document

Master's Thesis

Author

McGilliard, Jan L

URN

etd-06102012-040544

Title

Response patterns of older marrieds to questions regarding anticipated help

Degree

Master of Science

Department

Family and Child Development

Advisory Committee

Advisor Name	Title
McAuley, William J.	Committee Chair
Blieszner, Rosemary	Committee Member
Newhouse, Janette K.	Committee Member

Keywords

Domestic relations

Date of Defense

1989-05-15

Availability

restricted

Abstract

This study investigated, responses, of older married persons to questions concerning
anticipated availability of help and anticipated sources of help for seven in-home service
area's: personal care, nursing care, physical therapy, continuous supervision, household chores, and meal preparation. Variables such as age, gender, level of impairment,
proximity of nearest family member, and social resources served as independent variables
for this study. Anticipated availability of, help and anticipated sources of help,
specifically spouse, other family member, friend-neighbor, agency, or other, served as
dependent variables.
The investigator's interest was to determine what variables influenced the choice of
spouse versus other choices in, anticipated sources of help, and to examine gender
differences in anticipated assistance. Use of chi square analysis determined the
independence of variables characterizing older married respondents and their anticipated
sources of help.
Respondents most frequently chose spouse as the anticipated source of help for all
in-home services except physical therapy, where agency was the most frequently chosen
source of help. Men anticipated help from spouse significantly more than did women.
Women anticipated help from sources other than spouse more frequently than men.

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