Write 12 page essay on the topic Care giving for the elders in the filipino american family.Download file to see previous pages... The following are article reviews and critiques on articles regarding

Write 12 page essay on the topic Care giving for the elders in the filipino american family.

The following are article reviews and critiques on articles regarding care giving for the elderly in Filipino American families. Some articles dealt with studies on the situational lives, including problems and challenges of the elders of Filipino American ancestry. The studies were conducted on Filipino Americans who migrated to the United States in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and on how they have come to lived with their second and third generation offspring. 1. “Grandparent Caregiving Role in Filipino American Families,” by Kataoka-Yahiro, Merle, C. Ceria and M. Yoder Studies on role involvement, role integration, and perceived health were conducted specifically in Chinese and Filipino American women who cared for their elders. The study was conducted by Jones, Jaceldo, Lee, Zhang, and Meleis (qtd. in Kataoka-Yahiro, Ceria and Yoder 111) who found that role integration was positively related with perceived health in Filipino group but not in Chinese women. Role satisfaction was significantly present, while there was a correlation between role satisfaction and psychological well-being for the Filipino caregivers. Total role stress was also linked significantly with overall health for both the Chinese and Filipino caregivers. ...

Therefore, this study focused on the caregiving role provided by grandparents to their grandchildren, instead of the young or the grandchildren providing care for their grandparents. The study acquired the information from Filipino American grandparents who cared for their grandchildren, with time spend for care giving ranging from 30 hours to 80 hours per week. The grandparents were native born in the Philippines and immigrated to the United States. They lived in a three generation household and their ages ranged from 58 to 69 years old. Their stay in the U.S. ranged from three to 41 years and had been retired and unemployed. They were biological grandparents to their grandchildren and had two to eight grandchildren under their care. The study used three methods for data collection: 1) a demographic information sheet, b) a focus group, and c) field notes. The researchers used a qualitative thematic analysis to analyse the narrative date and know the themes in the information. The study found that the grandchildren were more acculturated than their grandparents, which contributed to the difficulty in disciplining the children. The grandparents were having health problems such as asthma, diabetes, hypertension, coronary heart disease problems, and their care giving roles contributed to the uncontrolled enhancement of their sicknesses. The results of the study revealed that Filipino American grandparents had the same experience with other grandparents in their caregiving role with their children.