Adult children’s experiences of family occupations following ageing parents’ functional decline

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Table 1. Participant Selection Criteria.

Exclusion Criteria (all rounds)	Rationale
Under 18 Does not speak nor read Norwegian Living in the same household as their parent(s) Spouse	Simplifies consent requirements, wanting experience from adults Required to understand the purpose of this study and the questions in Norwegian The research topic requires experiences from participants “living in separate home from parents” Focus on adult-children’s perspective
Inclusion criteria 1 (n=7); all rounds Has regular contact with their parents One of their parents has participated in reablement Does not need to have specific experiences about their parent’s reablement service	Has enough experience to be able to answer the question about family occupations with their parents
Inclusion criteria 2 (n=4) Siblings of previous participants in the study Sister-in-law of the previous participant in the study	Experiences of being close to the parents while having experience of living in a different place Could answer questions related to their experiences of occupations they do for and with their parents and siblings
Inclusion criteria 3 (n=4) Sons	In line with theoretical sampling (Charmaz, 2014), we sought participants able to illuminate and define the properties, boundaries, and relevance of the emergent categories

Table 2. Participant Demographics.

N	Participants (relationship)	Age Group	Parents (relationship)	Distance to parent (minutes; walking or driving)
1	Daughter	40-49	Mother	2 min walking
2	Daughter	50-59	Mother	5 min by car
3	Daughter	50-59	Mother	5 min by car
4	Daughter	50-59	Mother	10 min by car
5	Daughter	60-69	Mother	30 min by car
6	Daughter	50-59	Mother	60 min by car
7	Daughter	60-69	Father	10 min by car
8	Daughter	50-59	Father	25 min by car
9	Daughter-in-law	40-49	Father-in-law	30 min by car
10	Son	50-59	Mother	2 min walking
11	Son	60-69	Mother	2 min walking
12	Son	40-49	Mother	2 min walking
13	Son	50-59	Mother	5 min by car
14	Son	50-59	Mother	10 min by car
15	Son	40-49	Father	15 min by car

Figure 1. An Iceberg of Family Occupations: An Illustration of the Substantive Theory.

Charmaz, K. (2014). Constructing grounded theory (2nd ed.). Sage.

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