초고령부모와 노인자녀 간의 돌봄 경험 = Care Experiences Among Very Old Parents and Their Old Children

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

This study aims to examine caregiving experiences among very old parents and their old children, and how their care experiences were associated with individual and dyadic characteristics, drawing on the stress process model. Using 100 dyads of very old parents (aged 81–97) and their old children (aged 65–70), we estimated a path model for parents’ dissatisfaction with received care and children’s caregiving burden. Overall, very old parents and their old children reported low levels of dissatisfaction with received care and caregiving burden, respectively. These care experiences were positively correlated within the parent-child dyads. Further, very old parents tended to be more dissatisfied with received care, when their own economic status was lower; their caregiving children were male and in-laws. Old children’s caregiving burden was greater, when their parents were older and in-laws; they were primary caregivers; they provided more support to the parent; and there were fewer additional helpers for the parent. These findings highlight the individual and dyadic characteristics related to the care experiences within very old parent-child dyads, and emphasize the need for care services to support old children with a high caregiving burden in the community context.