Affiliation:
1. University of Tennessee, USA
Abstract
The goal of this chapter is to document the role of caregiving for older family members over the past 130+ years, to explore how changes in communication technologies have impacted caregiving and communicating, to explore how both caregiving and communication are becoming more fractured in contemporary society, and to develop recommendations for optimizing communication tools to manage family caregiving. This chapter examines the lives of four generations of women in my family who reached age 65+. It draws on theoretical work of Innis and McLuhan regarding evolutions in communication technology. Caregiving is examined in the context of four types of supports: economic, service, social, and emotional. Implications are considered for caring for older family members based on two key dimensions: level of family participation in care and access to monetary resources.
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