Suzanne Kingsmill and Benjamin Schlesinger, The Family Squeeze: Surviving the Sandwich Generation, University of Toronto Press, Toronto, 1998, 199 pp., £26.00 hbk ISBN 0 8020 0764 3, £12.50 pbk ISBN 0 8020 7134 1.

1999 ◽  
Vol 19 (5) ◽  
pp. 645-658
Author(s):  
DIANE SEDDON
Author(s):  
Carolyn J. Rosenthal

RÉSUMÉCe livre s'adresse au profane plutôt qu'au spécialiste ou à l'universitaire. Bien que son titre laisse entendre qu 'il soit d'abord destiné aux adultes d'âge moyen aux prises avec les demandes conflictuelles de leurs enfants et de leurs parents âgés, la préface précise clairement que le livre vise un lectorat plus vaste incluant quiconque est submergé par des demandes d'adolescents ou d'enfants adultes ou de parents âgés. Le style du livre est dégagé et divertissant; on y vit les défis d'une famille et plus particulièrement de Rebecca, une femme de 52 ans sur le marché du travail, entourée de trois enfants toujours à la maison et de parents âgés de 80 ans. Chaque chapitre présente un aspect propre aux familles vieillissantes (p. ex.: les jeunes adultes toujours à la maison ou qui y reviennent, les parents âgés, la génération du milieu, la participation des frères et soeurs aux soins des parents, l'aide du secteur de soins officiel, la planification de l'avenir). La principale faiblesse du livre consiste à appliquer l'étiquette de génération sandwich à presque toutes les relations familiales et à son manque de spécificité en regard de la notion de «sandwich». Plus précisément, les auteurs ne font pas la distinction entre les sentiments de conflit ou de culpabilité, les comportements ordinaires d'aide au sein d'une famille et la fourniture de soins à des degrés inhabituels. Lorsque l'ensemble des relations familiales ou des types d'aide ou de conflit sont regroupés sous le terme de «génération sandwich,» les parents âgés sont blâmés outre mesure du stress des filles adultes. Le terme laisse croire que les parents âgés sont un fardeau pour leurs enfants. L'abus du terme déprécie les aîné(e)s et les filles absolument coincées entre les soins à fournir aux différentes générations.


2014 ◽  
Vol 2014 ◽  
pp. 1-7
Author(s):  
Matthew Cruickshank ◽  
Marcus Law

Purpose. To determine family medicine residents’ perceived knowledge and attitudes towards the built environment and their responsibility for health advocacy and to identify their perceived educational needs and barriers to patient education and advocacy. Methods. A web-based survey was conducted in Canada with University of Toronto family medicine residents. Data were analyzed descriptively. Results. 93% agreed or strongly agreed that built environment significantly impacts health. 64% thought educating patients on built environment is effective disease prevention; 52% considered this a role of family physicians. 78% reported that advocacy for built environment is effective disease prevention; 56% perceived this to be the family physician’s role. 59% reported being knowledgeable to discuss how a patient’s environment may affect his/her health; 35% reported being knowledgeable to participate in community discussions on built environment. 78% thought education would help with integration into practice. Inadequate time (92%), knowledge (73%), and remuneration (54%) were barriers. Conclusions. While residents perceived value in education and advocacy as disease prevention strategies and acknowledged the importance of a healthy built environment, they did not consider advocacy towards this the family physician’s role. Barrier reduction and medical education may contribute to improved advocacy, ultimately improving physical activity levels and patient health outcomes.


1976 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 59-67
Author(s):  
John H. Simpson ◽  
Walter Phillips

A behavioural indicator of student protest - voting in favour of a student strike referendum - is shown to be positively associated with two social discontinuities accompanying the student role: the weakening of ties with the family of origin and an uncertain future. Also, a student's commitment to the social order as measured by a variety of items is shown to be inversely related to favouring the strike. An argument is made that recent student protest in Canada and the United States differed in terms of the major issues involved and that the difference can be explained by variation in the valued means of social participation in the two societies.


2018 ◽  
Vol 108 (1) ◽  
pp. 64-91 ◽  
Author(s):  
George Warecki

Published accounts of the work of J.R. Dymond, a zoology professor at the University of Toronto, director of the Royal Ontario Museum, and a significant force for conservation in Ontario emphasize his contributions to the natural history movement, and his influence on scientific research and the protection of natural areas in provincial parks. Relatively little attention has been paid to his early life and the local environments that shaped his views of nature. This article uses the concept of “place” to explain how Dymond became a conservationist. His experiences in specific locations—a product of social relations and the landscapes themselves—gave those places meaning and shaped his values. Such environments included the family farm and surrounding countryside in southwestern Ontario’s Metcalfe Township, Strathroy Collegiate Institute, the University of Toronto and nearby natural areas, places in Ottawa, and various lakes in B.C. and Ontario.


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