934 2017; Ben Nun et al., 2008). The Department of Human Care for people with ID Policy Defines a clear preference for living in the family unit (Shalom et al., 2015). It thus emphasizes the role of the family system as a primary caregiver. Although there is a trend to stay in the community of people with ID and their daily care is provided by family members, very little is known about their aging parents serving as primary caregivers. The present study aims to examine the degree of stress, burden, and ambivalence that aging parents to children with ID who live with them and visiting in different daily facilities, the functional level of the adult child's with ID, and how these are related to the parents' quality of life. Participants -The study involved 147 parents, including 73 parents whose children with ID visit the work facilities and another 74 parents whose children visit the daily care centers. A parent who participated in the study (father or mother) defined himself as the primary caregiver; no two caregiving parents from the same family participated. Statistical analysis in spss 23 software, descriptive statistics, inference statistics. Qualitative data processing - categorical content analysis. Findings of the quantitative study: A significant positive relationship was found between the burden of care and ambivalence, so the greater the burden of care, the higher the parent's sense of ambivalence
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