Politicising and gendering care for older people : Multidisciplinary perspectives from Europe / Anca Dohotariu, Ana Paula Gil.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Dohotariu, Anca, editor.

Gil, Ana Paula, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social sciences.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (256 p.)

Place of Publication:

Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2024.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

This book offers a new analytical framework for the multi-layered processes of politicising and gendering care for older people, understood as an inherently political and gendered condition of human existence. It brings together contributions that focus on different manifestations and interpretations of these processes in several European settings and at various societal and political levels. It investigates how care for older adults varies across time and place and aims to provide an in-depth comprehension of how it becomes an arena of political struggle and the object of public policy and political intervention. The book comprises multidisciplinary research stemming from gender studies, history, political science, public policy, social anthropology, social work, and sociology. These analyses examine the issue of care for older people as a political concern from many angles, such as problematising care needs, long-term care policies, home care services, institutional services, and family care. The book's contributions reveal the diversity of situations in which the processes of politicising and gendering care for older adults overlap, contradict, or reinforce each other while leading to increased gender (in)equalities on different levels - familial, professional, and societal. Both caring for older adults or being taken care of when becoming old(er) or frail are potentially a feature of any personal trajectory, which is always contextually situated. Therefore, this book is an invitation to reflect upon care for older people as an issue particularly significant at any time and relevant at any societal level or socio-political sphere.

Contents:

Front Matter

Contents

List of tables and graphs

Notes on contributors

Preface

Care for older people through politicising and gendering processes / Anca Dohotariu

1 How does the EU frame gender and care of fragile, older people? Polyphony, tensions, and silencing / Hanne Marlene Dahl, Daria Litvina

2 Social care in Britain / Pat Thane

3 Waiting for the revolution in care and old age / Christophe Capuano

4 Recent developments in long-term care in Spain / Antía Pérez-Caramés

5 Ambivalences around family care / Ana Paula Gil

6 Policy controversies in the Long-Term Care Act in Slovenia / Majda Hrženjak, Jana Mali, Vesna Leskošek

7 Older people's care in Croatia / Jelena Matančević, Danijel Baturina

8 Caregiving for older adults in times of the COVID-19 pandemic in Serbia / Ljiljana Pantović, Bojana Radovanović, Adriana Zaharijević

9 'This old town is not for old people' / Ľubica Voľanská

10 Politicising older persons' care in Romania / Simona Ioana Bodogai, Diana Mărgărit

Afterword / Pat Thane

Index

Notes:

CC BY-NC-ND

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