When the day comes : women as caregivers / directed by Sharon Ann McGowan for the National Film Board of Canada.

Format:

Video

Contributor:

McGowan, Sharon., Director.

National Film Board of Canada., Producer.

Alexander Street Press.

Series:

Filmakers library online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Older people--Home care.

Older people.

Women--Family relationships.

Women.

Genre:

Documentary films.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (29 minutes).

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Filmakers Library, 1991.

Language Note:

In English.

System Details:

digital

data file

Summary:

The vast majority of ailing elderly people are taken care of at home by a family member, usually a wife, daughter or mother. Women, traditionally, are expected to cope with family responsibilities and to provide care without financial rewards. While their efforts reduce society's longterm care costs, the caregivers go largely unnoticed and get little help from others. In this documentary we hear from four women who have provided continuous care for a loved one. We see their painstaking and exhausting routines as they massage, groom, dress, clean, cook, and respond to demands. The women speak candidly of the physical and emotional stress of this responsibility. Although they gain emotional satisfaction, they are at high risk themselves, subject to burn-out, illness and isolation. They are in need of support systems equally as much as those they nurture.

Notes:

Title from resource description page (viewed Dec. 16, 2013).

Electronic reproduction. Alexandria, VA : Alexander Street Press, 2013. (VAST: academic video online). Available via World Wide Web.

National Council on Aging, 1993

National Women's Studies Association, 1993

Bronze Apple, National Educational Film and Video Association, 1993

National Council on Family Relations, 1991

International Festival of Red Cross and Health Films, 1991

OCLC:

867541557

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.