Conference paper
Critical illness, women and coping: How do we do it?
Association of Women Educators National Conference: Lead, Learn, Laugh, 2006 (Mooloolaba, Australia, 04-Oct-2006–06-Oct-2006)
Association of Women Educators
2006
Abstract
What happens when families in their prime are confronted with a critical illness in the family? Should they keep working or stop work to care for their loved one? What about care of the children? It seems that there are a huge range of assumptions about our ability to incorporate the latest crisis into their lives without missing a beat. Keep working, keep up with the housework, make sure the kids are still at school and well fed………. Ensuring the partner, sibling or parent gets to those medical appointments, that they are visited in hospital, and that their household continues to run smoothly as well. All in a week's work………….. This paper will explore research into some peoples experiences of suddenly taking on the care of an ill loved one while making sure everything else around them keeps running like clockwork.
Details
- Title
- Critical illness, women and coping: How do we do it?
- Authors
- Janette Foster (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast - Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
- Conference details
- Association of Women Educators National Conference: Lead, Learn, Laugh, 2006 (Mooloolaba, Australia, 04-Oct-2006–06-Oct-2006)
- Publisher
- Association of Women Educators
- Date published
- 2006
- Organisation Unit
- University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 99449638602621
- Output Type
- Conference paper
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