This research aims to analyze the different family strategies in elderly people with severe dependencies. To do so we focus in the different tensions, determinants and justifications that are managed in each of the care’s possible options, and how these vary across social classes. Ethnography methodology is used, conducting depth interviews and systematic observations in four family’s households, each of them belonging to a particular social class. This work argues that the meaning associated to “good care” varies in relation with the situation and the social class. While upper-class families justify the goodness of the care’s commodification, in lower-class families the discourses about what care’s strategy implement is indeterminate and o...
The increase in life expectancy is not always accompanied by improvement in its quality and is likel...
Objetivo: Compreender como ocorre a organização de famílias cuidadoras de idosos dependentes no cont...
Care work has been considered a socially devalued women´s activity, which remains invisible, and in ...
Objetivo: Explorar, identificar y caracterizar las distintas estrategias de provisión de cuidados a ...
The care of dependent older people in our social context depends primarily on families. Within this ...
Households are essential places of observation for understanding the extent to which measures to con...
Los hogares son unidades de observación esenciales para entender hasta qué punto las medidas de cont...
Ageing and dependence, which are closely interrelated, are currently challenging the “family potent...
In this article we identify the specific situations that experience those old adult women who take c...
El envejecimiento poblacional y el consecuente aumento de las situaciones de dependencia originan un...
Objective: to get to know the experience, perceptions and feelings of different informal carers of d...
La figura del cuidador está adquiriendo una importancia creciente en una sociedad envejecida. Su par...
Objective: To understand how does the organization of caregiving families of dependent elderly occur...
The study of family carers of elderly has become relevant in recent decades, as a result of sociodem...
Through a review of care policies and active aging policies in Spain, relying on some ethnographic e...
The increase in life expectancy is not always accompanied by improvement in its quality and is likel...
Objetivo: Compreender como ocorre a organização de famílias cuidadoras de idosos dependentes no cont...
Care work has been considered a socially devalued women´s activity, which remains invisible, and in ...
Objetivo: Explorar, identificar y caracterizar las distintas estrategias de provisión de cuidados a ...
The care of dependent older people in our social context depends primarily on families. Within this ...
Households are essential places of observation for understanding the extent to which measures to con...
Los hogares son unidades de observación esenciales para entender hasta qué punto las medidas de cont...
Ageing and dependence, which are closely interrelated, are currently challenging the “family potent...
In this article we identify the specific situations that experience those old adult women who take c...
El envejecimiento poblacional y el consecuente aumento de las situaciones de dependencia originan un...
Objective: to get to know the experience, perceptions and feelings of different informal carers of d...
La figura del cuidador está adquiriendo una importancia creciente en una sociedad envejecida. Su par...
Objective: To understand how does the organization of caregiving families of dependent elderly occur...
The study of family carers of elderly has become relevant in recent decades, as a result of sociodem...
Through a review of care policies and active aging policies in Spain, relying on some ethnographic e...
The increase in life expectancy is not always accompanied by improvement in its quality and is likel...
Objetivo: Compreender como ocorre a organização de famílias cuidadoras de idosos dependentes no cont...
Care work has been considered a socially devalued women´s activity, which remains invisible, and in ...