Inevitable Losses—Ethical Issues for Adult Children with Aging Parents

10.2190/eicc7 ◽  
1996 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pearl E. Langer
Keyword(s):  
Adult Children ◽  
Ethical Issues ◽  
Aging Parents

scholarly journals Conversations About Death and Dying, End-of-Life Care Plans and Preferences Between Aging Parents and Adult Children

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. 417-417
Author(s):  
Hyo Jung Lee ◽  
Jacobbina Jin Wen Ng
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
End Of Life ◽  
Adult Children ◽  
End Of Life Care ◽  
Death And Dying ◽  
Family Members ◽  
Life Care ◽  
Joint Decision ◽  
Aging Parents ◽  
Care Plans

Abstract This study aims to investigate whether attitude and perception on late-life death and dying, end-of-life care plans and preferences could be better understood from current values shared between aging parents and their adult children in the multi-cultural city-bound country, Singapore. We are in the process of interviewing 20 aging parent-adult child dyads. Up to date, six semi-structured interviews were completed and transcribed. We performed Content analysis to analyze the transcripts. Preliminary findings showed that both aging parents and adult children rarely discussed this issue, although parents had their own plans or preferences. The major barriers against open conversations about death and dying of aging parents include: the perception of not-yet time to talk about this issue (without knowing when the right time is) and tendency to have conversations about death in tandem with finances, but not death itself. Although specific end-of-life care plans or arrangements were not thought out thoroughly, aging parents expressed a high level of trust and reliance on close family members’ decisions regarding their end-of-life care. They tended to agree on joint decision-making process within family, even though adult children had no or unmatched ideas about their aging parents’ end-of-life wishes. This did not necessarily align with previous findings in Western countries, underscoring individuals’ control over their own death and dying process. Open conversation within family, family-involved advance care planning, or joint decision-making processes may be warranted to promote quality of life and death in older Singaporeans and well-being of their family members of all ages.

Adult Children and Their Aging Parents

1989 ◽  
pp. 305-323 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sally Van Zandt ◽  
Bridget Cannon-Nifoussi
Keyword(s):  
Adult Children ◽  
Aging Parents

scholarly journals WHAT ENCOURAGES JAPANESE ADULT CHILDREN TO INITIATE END-OF-LIFE DISCUSSION WITH AGING PARENTS?

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (suppl_1) ◽  
pp. 113-113
Author(s):  
C. Shimada ◽  
R. Hirayama ◽  
K. Nakazato ◽  
T. Wakui
Keyword(s):  
End Of Life ◽  
Adult Children ◽  
Japanese Adult ◽  
Aging Parents

scholarly journals DAILY INTERACTIONS WITH AGING PARENTS AND ADULT CHILDREN: IMPLICATIONS FOR WELL-BEING AND CORTISOL

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (suppl_1) ◽  
pp. 12-12
Author(s):  
K. Birditt ◽  
J. Manalel ◽  
K. Kim ◽  
S. Zarit ◽  
K.L. Fingerman
Keyword(s):  
Adult Children ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Aging Parents ◽  
Daily Interactions

scholarly journals Revisiting Intergenerational Contact and Relationship Quality in Later Life: Parental Characteristics Matter

2020 ◽  
Vol 42 (5-6) ◽  
pp. 139-149
Author(s):  
Hye Won Chai ◽  
Steven H. Zarit ◽  
Karen L. Fingerman
Keyword(s):  
Relationship Quality ◽  
Adult Children ◽  
Functional Limitations ◽  
Later Life ◽  
Middle Aged ◽  
Aging Parents ◽  
Life Problems ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Middle Aged Adult ◽  
Middle Aged Adults

Contact and relationship quality between adult children and aging parents are two widely used indicators of intergenerational solidarity and are often assumed to be positively correlated. However, the association between the two may depend on characteristics of the parent involved. Using Family Exchanges Study Wave 1, this study assessed whether parental difficulties—measured as functional limitations and life problems—and gender moderated the associations between middle-aged adults’ contact and relationship quality with their parents. We found that more frequent email or phone contact was associated with worse relationship quality for fathers who had functional limitations. For life problems, however, more contact was not related to relationship quality for fathers with life problems. The associations did not differ by mother’s difficulties. These results suggest that frequent contact between middle-aged adult children and aging parents does not uniformly reflect better relationship quality but rather depends on parents’ characteristics.

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