My Mother, My Father

Duration: 33 min.

Genre: Educational

Year Published: 1984

Creator: Terra

Format: 16mm

Color: Color

Sound: sound

Description: Explores the issues involved in caring for elderly parents by focusing on the various ways in which four families are handling the problem. Includes interviews with parents and their families., Examines four families and their deep and often conflicting emotions as they deal with the stresses and changes involved in caring for an aging, and often ill, parent. Different approaches to caring are used by the four families: living-in with offspring, adult day care, and nursing home care. Suggests that each family must find its own solutions to caregiving problems based on the individual family's circumstances.

Complete Record: , Examines four families and their deep and often conflicting emotions as they deal with the stresses and changes involved in caring for an aging, and often ill, parent. Different approaches to caring are used by the four families: living-in with offspring, adult day care, and nursing home care. Suggests that each family must find its own solutions to caregiving problems based on the individual family's circumstances., Explores the issues involved in caring for elderly parents by focusing on the various ways in which four families are handling the problem. Includes interviews with parents and their families.NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.