Jacquelyn J Benson
Biographic Data
| ID | 77570 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jacquelyn J Benson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jacquelyn J |
| FAMILY NAME | Benson |
| SIGNATURE | BENSON J J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Missouri |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 23 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
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Best Practices in Family Life Education Programming for Midlife and Older Adults
Due to dramatic changes in the U.S. population's aging demographic, family life educators have begun offering more programming for midlife and older adults. This shift began in the early 1990s, after several family scholars and practicing professionals urged the National Council of Family Relations to revise its Framework for Life Span Family Life Education to include “later adulthood” as a fourth age‐group categorization. Since this revision, fa…
Older Adults Developing a Preference for Living Apart Together
What is understood about late life partner relationships is largely based on long-term marriage, with little attention given to understanding the process of forming new partnerships in older adulthood. However, marked growth in cohabitation and greater awareness of living apart together (LAT) suggests a need for further investigation. The purpose of this grounded theory study was to explore how decisions about LAT are made among later-life men an…
Role Ambiguity Among Women Providing Care for Ex-Husbands
Twenty-one women were interviewed regarding their caregiving experiences for ill or dying ex-husbands. Emergent in the analyses was the variety of ways in which they experienced role ambiguity as ex-wife caregivers. This article describes the role ambiguity ex-wife caregivers encountered interpersonally through interactions with network members, institutionally in dealing with professionals and the workplace, and intrapersonally in confusion over…
Older Homebound Women: Negotiating Reliance on a Cane or Walker
Canes and walkers are commonly characterized as assistive devices that serve the same purpose: as walking aides. These general views were reappraised and tempered in this descriptive phenomenological study with 40 older women (aged 85 to 98 years) who were unable to leave their homes without help. The purpose was to describe the phenomena of negotiating reliance on canes and walkers as walking devices and the lifeworld context underlying each phe…
Older Adults Developing a Preference for Living Apart Together
What is understood about late life partner relationships is largely based on long-term marriage, with little attention given to understanding the process of forming new partnerships in older adulthood. However, marked growth in cohabitation and greater awareness of living apart together (LAT) suggests a need for further investigation. The purpose of this grounded theory study was to explore how decisions about LAT are made among later-life men an…
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Older Homebound Women: Negotiating Reliance on a Cane or Walker
Canes and walkers are commonly characterized as assistive devices that serve the same purpose: as walking aides. These general views were reappraised and tempered in this descriptive phenomenological study with 40 older women (aged 85 to 98 years) who were unable to leave their homes without help. The purpose was to describe the phenomena of negotiating reliance on canes and walkers as walking devices and the lifeworld context underlying each phe…
Older Homebound Women: Negotiating Reliance on a Cane or Walker
Canes and walkers are commonly characterized as assistive devices that serve the same purpose: as walking aides. These general views were reappraised and tempered in this descriptive phenomenological study with 40 older women (aged 85 to 98 years) who were unable to leave their homes without help. The purpose was to describe the phenomena of negotiating reliance on canes and walkers as walking devices and the lifeworld context underlying each phe…
Role Ambiguity Among Women Providing Care for Ex-Husbands
Twenty-one women were interviewed regarding their caregiving experiences for ill or dying ex-husbands. Emergent in the analyses was the variety of ways in which they experienced role ambiguity as ex-wife caregivers. This article describes the role ambiguity ex-wife caregivers encountered interpersonally through interactions with network members, institutionally in dealing with professionals and the workplace, and intrapersonally in confusion over…
Older Adults Developing a Preference for Living Apart Together
What is understood about late life partner relationships is largely based on long-term marriage, with little attention given to understanding the process of forming new partnerships in older adulthood. However, marked growth in cohabitation and greater awareness of living apart together (LAT) suggests a need for further investigation. The purpose of this grounded theory study was to explore how decisions about LAT are made among later-life men an…
Best Practices in Family Life Education Programming for Midlife and Older Adults
Due to dramatic changes in the U.S. population's aging demographic, family life educators have begun offering more programming for midlife and older adults. This shift began in the early 1990s, after several family scholars and practicing professionals urged the National Council of Family Relations to revise its Framework for Life Span Family Life Education to include “later adulthood” as a fourth age‐group categorization. Since this revision, fa…
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Psychology (5 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving (3 works) · Medicine (3 works) · Social Psychology (3 works) · Social science (3 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Developmental psychology (2 works) · Gerontology (2 works) · Political science (2 works)