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Submitted: 2023-12-06 23:46:40
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First: Melissa
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Last: Cannon
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Enter Email: cannonm@wou.edu
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Western Oregon University
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| Melissa | Cannon | cannonm@wou.edu |
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| CJ | L | Johnson | cljohnson20@mail.wou.edu | Western Oregon University | 1 |
| Emily | D | Winters | ewinters20@mail.wou.edu | Western Oregon University | 2 |
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Informal Caregiving Experiences: Challenges and Opportunities for an Age-Friendly University
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The growing Age-Friendly University (AFU) global network has been helping its members assess their institutions and identify action items for increasing age-friendliness. This research investigates one of the issues identified through previous assessment of an AFU as a weakness and area of opportunity, which is the lack of resources and information for campus community members who identify as informal or unpaid family caregivers. Data from N = 72 campus members (26% faculty, 15% staff, 52% students; 84% female, 16% male) were collected in early 2023 through a campus-wide online survey and analyzed by a team of researchers using quantitative analysis for responses to Likert-type items and thematic analysis for open-ended responses. Issues around physical demands, time demands, financial stress, and social and emotional health while caregiving were assessed. Results indicated that respondents are experiencing different types of stress and need additional support and resources as caregivers, particularly related to respite care, mental health services, financial support, and assistance with physical tasks such as housework and transportation. The findings from this research will be used to develop and share resources around caregiving broadly across the university campus, and to ensure that resources are culturally inclusive, particularly as nearly 25% of the enrollment of undergraduate full-time equivalent students is composed of students from a Hispanic/Latinx background. Findings will also be used to establish community partnerships to harness resources from outside the university, and ultimately to help support the campus community moving forward and to achieve a piece of the university’s AFU vision.
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informal caregiving; age-friendly university; caregiving resources; survey research
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CC BY-NC-ND
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| 7d1d3cbe-b77a-4797-b391-8f355693d527 | Tamina Toray | 1780930 | requested | 01/04/2024 12:15:08 | ||||||
| c59677d3-8fc7-4d93-ac5d-8fdf79db86dc | Ashley Gage | 3163079 | requested | 01/22/2024 10:06:15 | ||||||
| 3a4ee32b-0056-4dce-8fdc-f415bf68c48a | Array | a203cd8d-b896-43bc-b7e1-633e3e82db03 | requested | Report submitted | Major revisions required (revise and resubmit) | 2024-04-01T06:06:03.000Z | https://drive.google.com/open?id=1UxIm4V2GymR6FhwpWWGMooVcMgR7X8z8 This paper provides an overview of a study that collected data on caregivers at a university and findings related to survey responses. The findings considered correlations of needs through preliminary quantitative analysis and thematic groupings of open-ended responses through qualitative analysis. This is an often-overlooked population of people at universities including students, staff, and faculty with unique needs and responsibilities making the research valuable. The practical connection to AFU’s goals is a great practical application of why the study is important. The paper has strong writing in most places! However, further clarity is needed in some portions of the paper. The primary area of concern is the connection to familism and Hispanic/Latinx culture raised in the Discussion but without providing enough evidence for this argument/connection in the Results. This point either needs to be further fleshed out in the Results section or taken out of the Discussion or explained better in the Discussion as an extension of this research, but not necessarily as evidence from the research. It’s a good and novel point, but the results just don’t quite support the argument as it stands in the paper currently. Reworking the Discussion to connect to the Results or vice versa is the main area to consider for the revision. | 2024-03-06T18:58:52.000Z | 2024-03-06T19:48:40.000Z |
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