This study explored caregiving among African American women baby boomers, born between 1946 and 1964, who are caring for older parents and who are working in professional and managerial positions. The purpose of this study was to describe the lived experience of these caregivers including their perceptions of caregiving, the impact of caregiving on their professional lives, the accommodations they make to balance professional roles and responsibilities, and the supports that are available to them. Utilizing a phenomenological research design approach, this research study explores and describes the intricacies of the lived experience of a purposefully selected sample of 20 African American professional women caring for older parents. The knowledge generated from this research study will provide new insights into caregiving among African American professional women to inform social work practice and to influence the development of culturally appropriate workplace policies to support caregivers. This research study explicates the meaning, structure, and essence of caregiving for African American professional women caring for older family members. The study emerges from the intersection of the life course perspective, stress process perspective, and role theory to create a conceptual framework describing the caregiving experiences of African American professional women baby boomers. The study generates a caregiving perspective for professional African American women and adds to the strength-based and empowerment perspectives of culturally relevant caregiving research.

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通过照顾老年父母的非裔美国人专业和管理妇女之旅

这项研究在1946年至1964年之间出生的非洲裔美国女性婴儿潮一代中进行了护理，这些女性正在照顾年迈的父母，并在专业和管理职位中工作。这项研究的目的是描述这些照顾者的生活经历，包括他们对照顾者的看法，照顾者对其职业生活的影响，他们为平衡职业角色和责任而做出的调适以及向他们提供的支持。本研究采用现象学研究设计方法，探索并描述了精心挑选的20名照顾老年父母的非裔美国职业女性样本的生活经验的复杂性。从这项研究中获得的知识将为非裔美国职业女性的照护提供新见解，从而为社会工作实践提供信息，并影响制定符合文化习惯的工作场所政策以支持照护者。这项研究阐明了照料年长家庭成员的非洲裔美国职业女性的意义，结构和本质。这项研究是从生命历程角度，压力过程角度和角色理论的交叉点产生的，以创建一个描述非裔美国职业女性婴儿潮一代的护理经历的概念框架。该研究为专业的非洲裔美国妇女提供了照护观点，并增加了与文化相关的照护研究的基于力量和赋权的观点。