Background
Merrill, Deborah Marie was born on August 19, 1962 in Portland, Maine, United States. Daughter of Justin S. and Nancy C. (Lane) Merrill.
( Based on open-ended interviews with adult children and ...)
Based on open-ended interviews with adult children and children-in-law, this book documents how plain folk from the working and middle classes manage to provide care for their frail, elderly parents while simultaneously meeting the obligations of their jobs and their own immediate families. Adult children who care for elderly parents are pressured daily trying to juggle the responsibilities of work, family, and caregiving. Deborah Merrill shows how plain folk (as one caregiver termed herself) from the working and lower middle classes manage to provide care for their frail, elderly parents while simultaneously meeting the obligations of their jobs and their own immediate families. The evidence is drawn from open-ended, in-depth interviews with adult children and children-in-law, all of whom have worked outside of the home at some point during caregiving. Merrill examines the strategies that caregivers use to combine work and caregiving and the accommodations they make in their jobs. She also points to the pathways that lead family members to caregiving roles and how those pathways vary according to family history, gender, and in-law status. By focusing on class differences in caregiving and pointing to policy implications, Merrill has provided an invaluable resource for students, researchers, and policymakers in social work, gerontology, family studies, and social issues.
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Merrill, Deborah Marie was born on August 19, 1962 in Portland, Maine, United States. Daughter of Justin S. and Nancy C. (Lane) Merrill.
Bachelor, Bowdoin College, 1984. Master of Arts, Brown University, 1988. Doctor of Philosophy, Brown University, 1991.
Research associate, Rand Corporation, Santa Monica, California, 1985-1986; assistant professor sociology, Clark University, Worcester, Massachusetts, since 1992; director gerontology studies program, Clark University, Worcester, Massachusetts, since 1992.
( Based on open-ended interviews with adult children and ...)
Postdoctoral fellow Center for Gerontology and Health Superior vena cava syndrome Research, Providence, 1990-1992. Member American Sociological Association, Gerontological Society American.
Married Kenneth J. Basye, June 6, 1987.