Women's Experiences Caring for Their Husbands' Siblings With Developmental Disabilities.

A phenomenological method was used in this study to examine the experiences of women caring for the husband's sibling with developmental disabilities (DDs) with the aim of establishing how and why they came to care and continued to care for them. Three after drawing on stories shared by seven women: for the sake of my husband, powerlessness, and trade-off between cost and rewards. The findings of this study show that Taiwanese women accept the cultural norms, thus accepting the caregiving responsibility.

Brothers' Experiences Caring for a Sibling With Down Syndrome.

I used a phenomenological method to examine the caregiving experiences of Taiwanese men with their siblings with Down syndrome (DS). Four themes emerged after drawing on stories shared by 7 men: taking responsibility for the caregiving, adjusting to an unfamiliar caregiving role, and counting on help from women and reframing. The results of the study show that the Taiwanese brother caregivers were raised according to the cultural norm, because of which they accepted the caregiving responsibility, even though they had rarely been included in the early life of their sibling with DS.