The present study utilized the retrospective interview technique to illuminate boundary permeability patterns adult children observed while providing care to their older parent. Twenty-seven individuals who self-identified as a caregiver to a parent were interviewed to identify turning points representing permeability changes in their parents’ boundaries around their private information. The four boundary permeability patterns that emerged from these data were the crescendo, oscillation, relinquishment, and segmenting patterns. These findings center communication changes as one way to understand the relational changes in the older parent-adult child eldercare relationship by showing that access to older parents’ private information emerged as distinctive marker indicating the beginning of the parental caregiver transition and subsequent changes throughout the eldercare relationship.

本研究利用回顾性访谈技术阐明成年儿童在照顾年长父母时观察到的边界渗透模式。对自称为父母照顾者的 27 个人进行了访谈，以确定代表其父母围绕其私人信息界限的渗透性变化的转折点。从这些数据中出现的四种边界渗透率模式是渐强、振荡、放弃和分段模式。. 这些发现将交流变化作为理解年长父母与成年子女照料关系的关系变化的一种方式，通过表明对年长父母的私人信息的访问作为独特的标志出现，表明父母照料者过渡的开始以及整个老人照料过程中的后续变化关系。