World J Psychiatry Ment Health Res | Volume 4, Issue 1 | Review Article | Open Access
Hui-Ching Wu*, Yi-Ching Chen and Chiao-Yu Yang
Department of Social Work, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
Department of Social Work, Fu Jen Catholic University, Taiwan
School of Social Welfare, University at Albany, USA
*Correspondance to: Hui Ching Wu
Fulltext PDFThe study aims to explore the influential factors of intergenerational transfer of continuum care
responsibility for aging people with severe mental illness. These vulnerable populations’ needs a
continuously informal resource involved when their major support system is in decline such as the
primary caregiver aged, loss of function, or passed away. Based on the traditional ethics of an Eastern
culture, the sibling’s legitimacy responsibility is viewed as a prior guardian. This study indicated the
predictors (i.e. socioeconomic characteristics, family relationship, the needs of parents’ expectation
or the mentally ill sibling, role identity, the attitude toward illness and caring responsibility, health
and psychological status, living etc.) of an intergenerational care giving model to be constructed by
the healthy siblings. The mental health professionals are better aware of the healthy siblings who play
an important role to sustain the supportive resources over the life course for the mentally ill sibling.
To include the healthy siblings in the treatment planning, crisis management, psycho educational
interventions, and information exchange in the process of primary care would be essential for the
best practice model.
Sibling; Aging; Severe Mental illness; Care giving responsibility
Wu H-C, Chen Y-C, Yang C-Y. The Intergenerational Transfer of Continuum Care Responsibility of the Individuals with Severe Mental Illness. World J Psychiatry Ment Health Res. 2020; 4(1): 1021..