Michael A. Saini, Jonathan Alschech, Linda Fieldstone, Sue Bronson
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Abstract
Unresolved family conflicts regarding caring for older adults can devastate their overall health, well-being, and the quality of care from their support networks. To better understand conflict in the context of caring for older populations, this study developed and piloted a new screening tool, the Eldercaring Conflict Checklist (ECC). The ECC was developed to help professionals provide targeted responses and interventions. The ECC is based on a literature review focusing on the factors associated with the typologies of family conflict in caring for older populations. A diverse sample of 157 professionals serving older populations in conflict answered an online survey using a case study vignette and the ECC. The ECC's validity, reliability, and factor structure were analyzed and explored quantitatively and by coding emerging themes in open-ended qualitative questions in the survey. The respondents reported that the ECC is comprehensive and useful, indicating its value as an intake screening tool and helpful for reliably and thoroughly assessing and measuring conflict within older adult family relations. Results show that the ECC demonstrates very high internal validity and model fit indices for the entire ECC, and each of the eight factors showed promising results. Implications are discussed regarding working with families within eldercaring coordination and elder mediation.
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As a quarterly peer-reviewed journal that has existed for over three decades, Ageing International serves all professionals who deal with complex ageing issues. The journal is dedicated to improving the life of ageing populations worldwide through providing an intellectual forum for communicating common concerns, exchanging analyses and discoveries in scientific research, crystallizing significant issues, and offering recommendations in ageing-related service delivery and policy making. Besides encouraging the submission of high-quality research and review papers, Ageing International seeks to bring together researchers, policy analysts, and service program administrators who are committed to reducing the ''implementation gap'' between good science and effective service, between evidence-based protocol and culturally suitable programs, and between unique innovative solutions and generalizable policies. For significant issues that are common across countries, Ageing International will organize special forums for scholars and investigators from different disciplines to present their regional perspectives as well as to provide more comprehensive analysis. The editors strongly believe that such discourse has the potential to foster a wide range of coordinated efforts that will lead to improvements in the quality of life of older persons worldwide. Abstracted and Indexed in:
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