{"id":82,"date":"2019-02-08T11:39:29","date_gmt":"2019-02-08T16:39:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/jmontoro\/?p=82"},"modified":"2019-02-08T11:39:36","modified_gmt":"2019-02-08T16:39:36","slug":"grandmothers-raising-grandchildren-pilot-intervention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/jmontoro\/2019\/02\/08\/grandmothers-raising-grandchildren-pilot-intervention\/","title":{"rendered":"Grandmothers Raising Grandchildren Pilot Intervention"},"content":{"rendered":"

2017 ANNUAL MEETING SOUTHERN GERONTOLOGICAL SOCIETY\u00a0April 6-9, Asheville, NC<\/strong><\/p>\n

https:\/\/southerngerontologicalsociety.org\/sgs-annual-meeting\/<\/a><\/p>\n

SYMPOSIUM:\u00a0Marshaling Social Support for Grandmothers Raising Grandchildren<\/p>\n

Organizers:\u00a0Julian Montoro-Rodriguez &\u00a0Bert Hayslip<\/strong><\/p>\n

ABSTRACT<\/strong><\/p>\n

The U.S. Census Bureau (2010) estimates that more than 1.6 million children in America are being raised primarily by grandparents, often as a result of the death, incarceration or incapacitation of the child’s parents. Caregiving is psychologically, emotionally and physical challenging; and caregiving grandparents often report more functional health problems and chronic disease incidence than non-caregiving peers.\u00a0\u00a0 There is consistent evidence that the perception of available support is linked to health and emotional well-being; but many grandmothers may not be able to receive the support they need since their own families are not fully functional and able to support them.\u00a0Using the Selective Optimization with Compensation (SOC) framework (Freund & Baltes, 1989) and socio-cognitive strategies we developed a program to assess the grandmothers\u2019 supportive needs and to empower them to reduce their stress, improve their communication skills and satisfaction with social support. This symposium a) describes the main components of the proposed intervention; b) presents data from 19 grandmothers who attended the four weekly sessions with individual facilitators during the past months; c) reports on the effectiveness of the intervention in decreasing the grandmother\u2019s stress; and d) discusses the its benefits to empower grandmothers to improve their psychological adjustment and take care of their needs. \u00a0Powerpoint Presentation – Intro<\/a><\/p>\n

PAPERS<\/strong><\/p>\n

1. Conceptual framework, goals, and methodology used to developed a program for grandmothers raising grandchildren (Anjana Nagrajan<\/strong>, UNC Charlotte)\u00a0Powerpoint Presentation<\/a><\/p>\n

2. Socio-demographic, health and social support characteristics of grandmothers enrolled in the study (Maryam Kazempour-Esmati<\/strong>, UNC Charlotte)\u00a0Powerpoint Presentation<\/a><\/p>\n

3. Communication Styles and Goal Setting Strategies to enhance grandmothers\u2019 ability to obtain help. (Katie Kutcher<\/strong>, UNC Charlotte)\u00a0Powerpoint Presentation<\/a><\/p>\n

4. The impact of the intervention on grandmothers\u2019 stress and satisfaction with social support (Julian Montoro-Rodriguez & Bert Hayslip<\/strong>, UNC Charlotte)\u00a0Powerpoint Presentation<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

2017 ANNUAL MEETING SOUTHERN GERONTOLOGICAL SOCIETY\u00a0April 6-9, Asheville, NC https:\/\/southerngerontologicalsociety.org\/sgs-annual-meeting\/ SYMPOSIUM:\u00a0Marshaling Social Support for Grandmothers Raising Grandchildren Organizers:\u00a0Julian Montoro-Rodriguez &\u00a0Bert Hayslip ABSTRACT The U.S. Census Bureau (2010) estimates that more than 1.6 million children in America are being raised primarily by grandparents, often as a result of the death, incarceration or incapacitation of the child’s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":831,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-research-projects"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/jmontoro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/jmontoro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/jmontoro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/jmontoro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/831"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/jmontoro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/jmontoro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83,"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/jmontoro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82\/revisions\/83"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/jmontoro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/jmontoro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/jmontoro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}