People with elderly parents met in five eight-week counseling groups to make decisions about the extent of responsibility they could comfortably assume for their parents and to work toward reaching a stage of filial maturity. Some issues were common to all groups — dependence, fear of one's own aging, relationships with siblings, communication. Results indicate that this informal, supportive modality is effective in helping adult children make decisions and act upon them.
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Carol P. Hausman (1979) studied this question.