Changes in the Provision of Family Care to Frail Older People in Familistic Welfare States: Lessons From Israel and Italy

2019 ◽  
Vol 32 (9) ◽  
pp. 972-986 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aviad Tur-Sinai ◽  
Georgia Casanova ◽  
Giovani Lamura

Objective: Our article aims to investigate changes in the rate of informal care provision, which occurred in Israel and Italy in the last decade. In addition, we analyze typology and magnitude of the main factors contributing to explain the probability of providing informal care. Method: We used data from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) at two selected time points (2006/2007 and 2015). Results: The probability of offering social support to elder family members who live outside the household has been trending down substantially over the years. The likelihood of providing unpaid care is significantly higher when one performs volunteer or charitable work and/or engages in leisure activities, and the importance of these two variables has been growing over the years. Discussion: Israel and Italy have experienced over the years a remarkable decline in the share of older adults providing informal care. The article helps to identify which factors have been associated with this phenomenon.

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-23
Author(s):  
Merih Ates ◽  
Valeria Bordone ◽  
Bruno Arpino

Abstract This study investigates the impact of non-intensive and intensive supplementary grandparental child care on grandparents’ involvement in leisure activities. Three aspects of leisure activities are investigated: the number/frequency of activities, with whom they are carried out and the subjective satisfaction with them. Beside the possibility of a cumulation effect, the literature suggests that providing grandparental child care might compete with other activities, especially for women. Thus, we consider role enhancement and role strain theories to derive our hypotheses. We use longitudinal data from the German Ageing Survey (DEAS) which contains rich information on the leisure activities of people aged 40 and older. To account for selection into the provision of grandparental child care, we use a within-unit estimation approach (fixed-effects panel models). Our results show that both grandfathers and grandmothers tend to engage in more leisure activities when they provide grandparental child care. While care-giving grandfathers become more likely to engage in activities with family members without changing their engagement outside the family, we found no effect for women in this respect. Nevertheless, grandparental child-care provision modifies satisfaction with leisure activities only for women, reducing it, independently from with whom leisure activities are carried out. These findings suggest that a higher quantity of leisure activities does not necessarily imply higher quality.


2021 ◽  
Vol 70 (2) ◽  
pp. 53-74
Author(s):  
Daniela Klaus ◽  
Claudia Vogel

Zusammenfassung Frauen leisten nach wie vor mehr private Sorgearbeit als Männer, obwohl ihre Erwerbsbeteiligung in den letzten Jahren deutlich gestiegen ist. In diesem Beitrag untersuchen wir auf Basis des Deutschen Alterssurveys 1996 bis 2017 im Längsschnitt, ob das stärkere Engagement von Frauen in der Übernahme unbezahlter Unterstützung und Pflege für gesundheitlich eingeschränkte Angehörige darauf zurückgeht, dass sie im Vergleich zu Männern nach wie vor seltener, mit geringerem Stundenumfang sowie geringerer beruflicher Qualifikation am Arbeitsmarkt beteiligt sind. Diese Hypothese wird nicht bestätigt, denn bestehende Geschlechterunterschiede in Pflege und Unterstützung können allenfalls partiell durch die geschlechtsspezifische Arbeitsmarktbeteiligung aufgeklärt werden. Abstract: Does Women’s Lower Labor Force Participation Explain their Higher Engagement in Private Care Work? A Contribution to the Debate about Gender Equality Women do still provide more private care work than men, although their participation in employment has increased in the last decades. Using longitudinal data of the German Ageing Survey 1996 to 2017, in this paper, we study, whether women’s greater engagement in unpaid social support and care giving can be attributed to the fact that women compared to men are still less economically active and have a lower occupational qualification. This hypothesis, however, cannot be confirmed, as the gender differences in the private unpaid care work can be explained by gender differences in the labor force participation only to a small amount.


Author(s):  
Nathan L. Linsk

A substantial and increasing number of people have developed HIV infections in their later years, most associated with male-to-male sexual contact or blood transfusions, although transmission also occurs through substance users and unsafe heterosexual activity. Human service practitioners need to become sensitive to the needs of elderly people and their families who are affected by HIV/AIDS. Prevention may be incorporated as part of initial engagement and assessment of elderly persons, and service packages may be developed for older persons who are infected or provide care for HIV-infected persons. Issues of confidentiality, social support, family care, and nondiscrimination are critical concerns in serving this population.


2000 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 181-203 ◽  
Author(s):  
MAKOTO KONO

In Japan the ideology of familism has reproduced patriarchal family values. It successfully retained family centred welfare provision and gender inequality in informal care work, and ensured formal care services were residual. However, the advancement of modernisation has weakened the effectiveness of the informal care sector, and the demand for care has increased steadily along with the ageing of the population. Moreover, informal care based on the self-sacrifice of family carers tends to be less popular. This tendency is especially evident in the opinions of the younger generation and females. Furthermore, structural shifts in their working circumstances, particularly of females, makes the continuation of the patriarchal approach to informal care more difficult. In the field of the care of older people, as part of the strategy for restructuring the Japanese welfare system, the emphasis is now more on market activities, which is in accord with the assumptions underlying ‘the residual welfare model of social policy’ (Titmuss, 1974).


2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 146
Author(s):  
Mohd. Suhaimi Mohamad

<div class="WordSection1"><p><em>In many traditional societies, women play an important role  as informal caregiver. They take care of small children, family members who are disabled, old and frail.  They perform their role within the private family sphere without much complaints. However when many women enter labour force outside their family many of them can no longer become family care giver. The  seperation between nuclear familes and extended families due to rural urban migration makes older women like mothers and mothers in-law can no longer available to provide help. As an alternative, many urban families opt for domestic help to look after their young children, disabled family members and the elderly.  Domestic helpers continue their domestic chores as instructed by the lady of the house an at the same time perform caregiving role. The important issue  related to having domestic maid to perform care giving role especially in Muslim family is regarding physical contact.  Most of the activities in caregiving roles involves physical contact especially during cleaning patients body, changing their clothes, prepare their bed, feeding them, holding their hands and body for therapy. However Islamic paractice do not allow physical contact like touching between two people who are not close family relations or mahram.  Since most of domestic maid who also perform the role as caregiver are women, therefore the issue of empowering men to become caregiver is very important  because the needs of male caregivers to care for male patients is increasing. Based onwhat is stated in the Quran and hadith and related documents, this paper will outline the need for informal care in families and communities that need to be addressed, particularly those who are Syariah-compliant. Cases from research in the relevant field will be presented to highlight the issues why men should be encourage to consider role as informal caregivers.</em><em></em></p><p>Dalam banyak masyarakat tradisional, perempuan memainkan peran penting sebagai pengasuh informal. Mereka merawat anak-anak kecil, anggota keluarga yang cacat, tua dan lemah. Mereka melakukan peran mereka dalam ruang keluarga pribadi tanpa banyak keluhan. Namun ketika banyak perempuan memasuki angkatan kerja di luar keluarga mereka, banyak dari mereka tidak bisa lagi menjadi pemberi perawatan keluarga. Pemisahan antara keluarga inti nuklir dan keluarga besar karena migrasi perkotaan pedesaan membuat perempuan yang lebih tua seperti ibu dan ibu mertua tidak lagi dapat menyediakan bantuan. Sebagai alternatif, banyak keluarga perkotaan memilih bantuan rumah tangga untuk menjaga anak-anak mereka, anggota keluarga yang cacat dan orang tua. Pembantu rumah tangga melanjutkan pekerjaan rumah tangga mereka seperti yang diperintahkan oleh nyonya rumah dan pada saat yang sama melakukan peran pengasuhan. Masalah penting terkait dengan memiliki pembantu rumah tangga untuk melakukan peran memberi perawatan terutama dalam keluarga Muslim adalah tentang kontak fisik. Sebagian besar kegiatan dalam peran pengasuhan melibatkan kontak fisik terutama selama membersihkan tubuh pasien, mengganti pakaian, menyiapkan tempat tidur, memberi makan, memegang tangan dan tubuh untuk terapi. Namun paraktek Islam tidak mengizinkan kontak fisik seperti menyentuh antara dua orang yang tidak memiliki hubungan keluarga atau mahram. Karena sebagian besar pembantu rumah tangga yang juga berperan sebagai pengasuh adalah perempuan, maka masalah pemberdayaan laki-laki untuk menjadi pengasuh sangat penting karena kebutuhan pengasuh laki-laki untuk merawat pasien laki-laki semakin meningkat. Berdasarkan apa yang dinyatakan dalam Al-Quran dan hadits dan dokumen terkait, makalah ini akan menguraikan kebutuhan untuk perawatan informal dalam keluarga dan masyarakat yang perlu ditangani, terutama mereka yang mematuhi Syariah. Kasus-kasus dari penelitian di bidang yang relevan akan disajikan untuk menyoroti masalah mengapa laki-laki harus didorong untuk mempertimbangkan peran sebagai pengasuh informal.</p></div><p align="left"> <strong><em>Keywords:</em></strong><em> gender, informal care giver, care giving, family.</em></p>


2018 ◽  
Vol 30 (12) ◽  
pp. 1745-1752 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nathalie Bailly ◽  
Guillaume Martinent ◽  
Claude Ferrand ◽  
Océane Agli ◽  
Caroline Giraudeau ◽  
...  

ABSTRACTObjectives:The objectives of the study were to examine the trajectory of spirituality among older adults, to investigate the roles of gender and religion on the developmental trajectory of spirituality, and to explore whether the linear growth of spirituality accelerated or decelerated at time points at which the participants reported high scores of social support and flexibility.Design:A five-year longitudinal study.Setting:The research used data from a longitudinal study, which follows a non-institutionalized older adults cohort of residents from France. The data used in this paper were collected at three time points (T1: 2007; T2: 2009; T3: 2012).Participants:A total of 567 participants were included in the analysis (59.44% female; Mage = 75.90, SD = 5.12).Measurements:Multilevel growth curve analysis was used measuring spirituality, satisfaction with social support, and flexibility.Results:The results indicated the following: (1) stability of spirituality over time, (2) older women reported higher levels of spirituality than older men, and those who had a religion reported higher scores of spirituality than their counterparts who had no religion (these effects were strong and clinically meaningful), (3) older adults who reported higher levels of social support and flexibility also reported higher levels of spirituality, and (4) the slope of spirituality seemed to accelerate at time points at which participants also had higher levels of social support and flexibility (these effects were rather small but of theoretical interest).Conclusion:The results of the present study help to improve the understanding of the potential benefit of encouraging the spiritual aspects of life.


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