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Contemporary social policy compels seniors who require assistance with personal or household tasks to obtain help from the community a term that most often means women family members. Much is written about caregiver burden but little research explores the experiences of older women who are the recipients of home care. Social policy with its reliance on family as care givers is an inadequate response that entraps and marginalizes women both as caregivers and as care recipients. Care recipients engage in work that involves resistance and raging against injustice in their daily practice of…mehr

Produktbeschreibung
Contemporary social policy compels seniors who
require assistance with personal or household tasks
to obtain help from the community a term that most
often means women family members. Much is written
about caregiver burden but little research explores
the experiences of older women who are the recipients
of home care. Social policy with its reliance on
family as care givers is an inadequate response that
entraps and marginalizes women both as caregivers and
as care recipients. Care recipients engage in work
that involves resistance and raging against injustice
in their daily practice of negotiating homecare. Rage
as resistance is an appropriate response to the
experience of marginalization and silencing among
older women care recipients. Angry seniors is an
image that claims rage as a legitimate force; it is
an image of older women that calls for reconstruction
and research to uncover its legitimate power in the
daily lives of care recipients.
Autorenporträt
Lorraine Begley works in research at the University of Prince
Edward Island, Canada. Her parents experienced radically
different home care prior to their deaths. This thesis builds
upon and augments those experiences with indepth interviews with
a woman living alone in a senior's housing facility in a rural
community in Prince Edward Island.