The Factors and Impacts of Assuming Care Responsibilities for the Siblings of Disabled Persons Living in a Long-Term Care Institution in Taichung

• Main Authors: LIU, SHU-CHUAN, 劉淑娟
• Other Authors: LIN, CHAO-YIN
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2013
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/96564275614722212463

碩士 === 國立臺北大學 === 社會工作學系 === 101 === In the past, most studies investigated the care issues about siblings with intellectual disabilities. Researchers had contacted those siblings assuming care responsibilities for disabled persons, regardless the types of disabilities. The goal of this study is to explore the factors and impacts of assuming care responsibilities for the siblings of disabled persons living in institutions. The researcher selected a long-term care institution in Taichung as the study field, and the study adopted a qualitative research method and collected data through semi-structured in-depth interviews. The interviewees of this study included seven siblings with disabled person. The findings are as follows. 1. The factors to take responsibilities included the siblings relationship, Chinese culture, and other reasons. The research found that siblings had good relationships with disabled siblings, stronger sense of traditional Chinese culture, and flexible working timetables. 2. The process of taking care included first siblings wanted to try to take care, but lacking formal resources, feeling hopeless, and finally accepting institutional care services. Second, siblings decided institutional care themselves; deciding the institutions according to distance and government subsidies. Third, siblings showed concerns for visiting and participating in institutional care. 3. The impacts on siblings were worries about the endless financial burden, having to communicate with spouses. There were no particular impacts on employment. In addition, siblings were worried a lot about how to care disabled persons in the future, and this issue was related to the double-ageing of disabled persons. Most siblings hoped the government to raise the amount of subsidies so as to cover their expenses.