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Intro -- Foreword -- Author's Note: The Joy of Caregiving -- Chapter 1: Accepting the Hard Truths of Caregiving -- Chapter 2: Plan Ahead - Not on the Fly! -- Chapter 3: Let's Talk About Housing -- Chapter 4: Accessibility and Inclusion Matter -- Chapter 5: Hiring Help at Home -- Chapter 6: Long-Distance Caregiving -- Chapter 7: Crisis Management -- Chapter 8: Caregiving in the Workplace -- Chapter 9: Daily Living Redefined -- Chapter 10: Mobility Matters -- Chapter 11: Your Healthcare Team -- Chapter 12: Money Matters -- Chapter 13: Legally Speaking: Legal and Estate Planning for Elders -- Chapter 14: Holidays, Family Style -- Chapter 15: Taking Care of Yourself -- Chapter 16: End-of-Life Care -- About the Author -- Next Chapter Press.

Providing assistance to aging parents is a common midlife task for adult children, and daughters in particular. Consequently, caregiving is an experience that coincides and influences a woman in midlife planning for her own aging. Using qualitative inquiry, this article describes the plans that caregivers have for their aging. Data were collected through face-to-face interviews with 15 female caregivers between the ages of 50 and 65 who were caring for an ill and disabled parent or parent-in-law. Most participants had made plans in the areas of finances, living arrangements, health, and social network, but others had made minimal plans, acknowledging barriers and limitations of planning for later life. A discussion of social work practice implications is included.

E-Learning platform for dementia caregivers
Jockey Club Centre for Positive Ageing is developing a multimedia e-learning platform for dementia caregivers; here, they share the vast benefits. Taking care of a loved one who has dementia is a challenging task for family members. According to an opinion survey conducted by Jockey Club Centre for Positive Ageing (JCCPA), almost 90% of caregivers reported experiencing stress while caring for a family member with dementia, with about half of them experiencing frequent episodes of stress.(1) Data indicates that family members who assume the primary role of caring for individuals with dementia experience a significant burden of caregiving. On average, caregivers devote between five and 20 hours per day to caring for these individuals.(2) Extended caregiving hours can reduce the time available for rest and social engagement, leading to feelings of loneliness and social isolation.(3) It is common for caregivers to experience high levels of depression.(4)

Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to understand caregivers' discursive constructions and responses to their unwanted (family and social) role as resulting in exchanges on social media. Online group platforms are understood as particularly suitable for the expression of intimate feelings among adults, for meeting and exhibiting stigma issues, and for the circulation of information and support (Suler, 2004; McCormack, 2010; Pounds et al., 2018).


Design/methodology/approach
This paper draws from digital Conversation Analysis (Giles et al., 2015), and considers data after combining quantitative (corpus analysis) and qualitative methods, from a critical discourse analysis perspective. The Stereotype Content Model (SCM; Fiske et al., 2002) is used together with collocation analysis to understand categorisations, which ultimately result in a defence strategy (Assimakopoulos et al., 2017) to negotiate the Self and the Others (Tannen, 1992).


Findings
Considering that the digital environment allows a discursive negotiation of identities, data suggest that these interactions are expressions of membership construction, group solidarity and empowerment, that normalise and legitimise emotions with the ultimate goal of (self-)acceptance.


Originality/value
This study provides a basis for further research on caregivers' self-positioning in power-relations with others.