ACTIVITY OF THE FAMILY CARERS OF THE ELDERLY DURING SARS-COV-2 PANDEMIC

2021 ◽  
Vol 571 (10) ◽  
pp. 28-36
Author(s):  
Rafał Bakalarczyk
Keyword(s):  
New Technologies ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Occupational Activity ◽  
Information Communication ◽  
Family Carers ◽  
Difficult Situation ◽  
The Family ◽  
Formal Services ◽  
Care Activity ◽  
The One

Article focuses on various aspects of the family carers activity in the age of pandemia. The carers activity has been divided into several categories: care activity; activity related to the health issues; occupational activity and the activity in the sphere of new technologies, especial digital tools and social media. The researches used in the article has shown that the decline of the access to the formal services (both social and medical) and the shortening of the informal, social contacts led to the increasing burden of the family carers. Thus, the care activity has been intensified, so that other forms of activities could be retrenched. Also, other restrictions and risks of that time could have impact on non-care activities of family caregivers. Pandemic time affected also the use of digital technologies in many aspects, such as searching for information, communication, contacts with formal institutions, groups of support and webinars attendance. Also labour activity opportunities has been changed that time. On the one hand, development of tele-work has given potential chance to reconciliation between working and caring duties, but on the other hand additional care burdens and difficult situation on labour market could make the labour activity of carers difficult to manage.

scholarly journals Personality and Dementia: an Approach to Differential Profile of the Caregiver

2011 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 85-94
Author(s):  
Elena de Andrés-Jiménez ◽  
Rosa Mª Limiñana-Gras ◽  
Encarna Fernández-Ros
Keyword(s):  
Relevant Information ◽  
Personality Profile ◽  
Family Carers ◽  
Psychological Variables ◽  
People With Dementia ◽  
The Family ◽  
Study Population ◽  
The One ◽  
The Impact

The aim of this study is to determine the existence of a characteristic personality profile of family carers of people with dementia. The correct knowledge and use of psychological variables which affect the carer, helps to promote appropriate actions to mitigate the impact of care and improve the carer’s quality of life and likewise the one of the person cared for. The study population consists of 69 family carers of people with dementia, members of various associations and care centers. The results allow us to identify a characteristic personality profile for these carers and it reveals a specific psychological working in this sample, although we cannot directly relate it with the tasks of caring for people with this disease, this profile gives us very relevant information to pay more attention to the needs of this group. Moreover, the analysis of personality styles depends on the sex of the family carer, showing, once again, that the woman is in a situation of most vulnerability.

Protective Factors in Family Relationships

2014 ◽  
pp. 76-85 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ann Buchanan
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle ◽  
Young People ◽  
Protective Factors ◽  
Family Relationships ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Protective Role ◽  
Care For The Elderly ◽  
The Family ◽  
The One ◽  
Partnership Approach

This chapter analyzes the importance of protective factors in family relationships. In Confucian societies, where services for older people may be limited, intergenerational family relationships are crucial in providing care for the elderly. Confucian societies are better at recognizing the protective influence of the family, but scholars from these areas suggest that the culture may be changing. As the “One child” norm extends (not only in China) across many Asian societies, the challenges for young people in supporting their parents and grandparents may become overwhelming. This chapter suggests that at every stage of the life cycle, some families will need state support in order to carry out their protective role in mitigating the risks experienced by both the young and the old. A state/family partnership approach is likely to be more acceptable, more effective, and more economic than state care alone.

scholarly journals Personality and Dementia: an Approach to Differential Profile of the Caregiver

2011 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 85-94
Author(s):  
Elena de Andrés-Jiménez ◽  
Rosa Mª Limiñana-Gras ◽  
Encarna Fernández-Ros
Keyword(s):  
Relevant Information ◽  
Personality Profile ◽  
Family Carers ◽  
Psychological Variables ◽  
People With Dementia ◽  
The Family ◽  
Study Population ◽  
The One ◽  
The Impact

The aim of this study is to determine the existence of a characteristic personality profile of family carers of people with dementia. The correct knowledge and use of psychological variables which affect the carer, helps to promote appropriate actions to mitigate the impact of care and improve the carer’s quality of life and likewise the one of the person cared for. The study population consists of 69 family carers of people with dementia, members of various associations and care centers. The results allow us to identify a characteristic personality profile for these carers and it reveals a specific psychological working in this sample, although we cannot directly relate it with the tasks of caring for people with this disease, this profile gives us very relevant information to pay more attention to the needs of this group. Moreover, the analysis of personality styles depends on the sex of the family carer, showing, once again, that the woman is in a situation of most vulnerability.

Infantilization of the elderly not only in the language sphere – research report

2020 ◽  
Vol 34 (5) ◽  
pp. 7-21
Author(s):  
Katarzyna Szostakowska
Keyword(s):  
The Elderly ◽  
Research Report ◽  
Family Carers ◽  
Interview Method ◽  
Research Material ◽  
The Family ◽  
Baby Talk ◽  
Insufficient Knowledge

The presented article concerns the phenomenon of infantilization of the elderly in many areas of everyday by their family carers. Infantilization means treating an adult like a child. In the sphere of language, this phenomenon is called baby-talk. Often infantilization of the elderly concerns the sphere of communication. The author of the article shows that not only during conversations they are treated as children. Family carers showed signs of infantilization, referring to the care and nursing of the elderly under their care. This article is an excerpt from a broader study of family carers for the elderly. The study was conducted with 20 carers of the elderly using the unstructured interview method in the Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship. The analysis of the research material was performed using the MAXQDA software. The result of a broad analysis is the research report presented in this study, which shows that infantilization is multidimensional and nonconscious. It results from the lack of preparation of the family carers for the role of a caregiver. Due to their insufficient knowledge about looking after an old person, the careres are forced to base their knowledge on their experience as parents.

Ambient Intelligence

2011 ◽  
pp. 201-221 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shara Monteleone
Keyword(s):  
Ambient Intelligence ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Legal Regulation ◽  
Fundamental Rights ◽  
Information Communication Technologies ◽  
Information Communication ◽  
Private And Public ◽  
The One ◽  
Fundamental Rights And Freedoms

Unprecedented advances of Information Communication Technologies (ICT) and their involvement in most of private and public activities are revolutionizing daily life and our relationship to our environments. If, on the one hand, the new developments promise to make people’s lives more comfortable or more secure, on the other hand, they raise complex social and legal issues in terms of fundamental rights and freedoms. The objective of this paper is to envisage some of the main legal challenges posed by the new Ambient Intelligence technologies (AmI), in particular for the fundamental rights of privacy and data protection, while trying to sketch some possible solutions. After analyzing the possible applications of AmI technologies and the evolution of the concept of privacy, the chapter considers the adequacy of the current legal regulation models to respond to these new challenges. Attention will be paid to the possible use of these new technologies for security purposes, and therefore to the issue of balancing opposed interests and rights according to the principles appropriate for a democratic society.

scholarly journals Buddhist Women and Polygamy Issue in Indonesia

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kustiani
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Intercourse ◽  
Family Life ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Pivotal Role ◽  
Difficult Situation ◽  
The Family ◽  
The One ◽  
The Impact ◽  
New Religion

Buddhism is not a new religion in Indonesia because it has existed in the country since 4th century A.C.. After that, due to the Islam domination in the country, Buddhism becomes minor religion and must seek its creative ways to maintain its existence in Indonesia. Buddhist women must be creative too when they face some Islamic concepts regarding women. It is because, many Islamic concepts have different point of view from Buddhism regarding women.Speaking about family and social life, women have pivotal role. Polygamy as the one of many issues that places women in difficult situation sounds very familiar for Indonesian people including Buddhists. This practice has happened in Indonesia in ancient time especially in the royal families. Now, the practice of polygamy flourished everywhere because it is justified and legal in Islam as majority belief in Indonesia, under certain circumstances. Actually, polygamy has also happened in the Buddhist society even during the Buddha’s time. It was shown in the story mentioned in the Dhammapada Aṭṭhakathā (Dh.A. I. 43.ff) about two wives who had endless hatred towards each other in many rebirths due to polygamy. Nevertheless, not like in Islam, it is not getting justification as practicable or recommendable even under certain circumstances. Speaking about family life, having one wife is more conducive for the betterment of spiritual and social life than having many wives. Even when having one wife, the training to not having sexual intercourse is recommendable in Buddhism four times a month during the uposatha day. “What is the impact of polygamy towards the life of Buddhist women in Indonesia?” and “how Buddhist women should lead the family life in the midst of polygamy practice for the betterment of society?” are the main issues of this article.

scholarly journals Biopolitical Paternalism and Its Maternal Supplements: Kinship Correlates of Community Mental Health Governance in China

2020 ◽  
Vol 35 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhiying Ma
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Community Mental Health ◽  
Mental Health Program ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Security Risks ◽  
Community Governance ◽  
The Family ◽  
Community Mental Health Program ◽  
The One ◽  
Do So

This article examines how the community mental health program run by the Chinese state conceptualizes, mobilizes, and molds the family. My fieldwork shows that, on the one hand, the program defines care biomedically and connects it to managing security risks in the population. The state fashions itself as paternal while displacing most responsibilities for patient care and management onto the supposedly authoritative families. On the other hand, caregivers—mostly women and the elderly—may resort to practices publicly denounced but privately enabled by the program, such as covert medication and home confinement. They do so not only to manage patients from a position of vulnerability and deprivation but also to compassionately engage with patients’ suffering and non-medical desires. These two entangled kinship correlates of state power, which I call “biopolitical paternalism” and its “maternal supplements,” prove critical for understanding the work of community governance in China and beyond.

scholarly journals Dementia and family burden of care in Lebanon

2017 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Monique Chaaya ◽  
Kieu Phung ◽  
Samir Atweh ◽  
Khalil El Asmar ◽  
Georges Karam ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Psychosocial Interventions ◽  
Well Being ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Family Carer ◽  
Burden Of Care ◽  
Family Carers ◽  
Arab Region ◽  
The Family ◽  
Mental Well Being

The burden on and mental well-being of family carers for the elderly, especially those with dementia, has been well studied in high-income countries and to a lesser extent in the Arab region. Our study of Lebanese carers highlights the importance of considering the psychological well-being of the family carer, and the role of dementia and depression in increasing the burden of care. Psychosocial interventions have produced equivocal results and therefore customised and contextualised interventions need to be researched. Greater understanding of the coping mechanisms used by carers is required and an examination of the positive aspects of caring is warranted.

scholarly journals INTERNET USAGE BY THE ELDERLY IN SERBIA

2017 ◽  
pp. 103
Author(s):  
Gordana Stojić
Keyword(s):  
Digital Divide ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Internet Usage ◽  
Information Communication Technologies ◽  
Information Communication ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Favorable Conditions ◽  
Older Citizens

In the last decades, the problems of the elderly have attracted the attention of the scientific and wider public, thus imposing themselves as issues of public policies. The growth of interest in the elderly is conditioned by: the increasing share of the elderly in the overall population, the change of their social status as well as the development of new conceptual frames (social exclusion, marginalization, ageism). Today the elderly live in a society which is characterized by the expansion of information-communication technologies (ICT). The Internet is a means of more efficient and faster completion of various activities, satisfaction of different needs and access to social resources. On the other hand, the adoption of new technologies has taken on a different pace when it comes to the generation affiliation. That is why it is important to examine the degree to which older citizens successfully use these opportunities. The subject matter of the paper is Internet usage by the elderly. It points to the benefits the elderly are getting from Internet usage as well as the barriers they come across. Starting from the concept of the digital divide, Internet usage by the older Serbian population is analyzed. Finally, the measures to be taken to create favorable conditions for Internet usage by elderly are pointed out.

Murder with Impunity: The Construction of Arab Masculinities and Honor Crimes

1970 ◽  
pp. 38-45
Author(s):  
May Abu Jaber
Keyword(s):  
Violence Against Women ◽  
Social Boundaries ◽  
Religious Institutions ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Media ◽  
The One ◽  
Male Authority ◽  
Cultural Networks ◽  
Gender Specific

Violence against women (VAW) continues to exist as a pervasive, structural,systematic, and institutionalized violation of women’s basic human rights (UNDivision of Advancement for Women, 2006). It cuts across the boundaries of age, race, class, education, and religion which affect women of all ages and all backgrounds in every corner of the world. Such violence is used to control and subjugate women by instilling a sense of insecurity that keeps them “bound to the home, economically exploited and socially suppressed” (Mathu, 2008, p. 65). It is estimated that one out of every five women worldwide will be abused during her lifetime with rates reaching up to 70 percent in some countries (WHO, 2005). Whether this abuse is perpetrated by the state and its agents, by family members, or even by strangers, VAW is closely related to the regulation of sexuality in a gender specific (patriarchal) manner. This regulation is, on the one hand, maintained through the implementation of strict cultural, communal, and religious norms, and on the other hand, through particular legal measures that sustain these norms. Therefore, religious institutions, the media, the family/tribe, cultural networks, and the legal system continually disciplinewomen’s sexuality and punish those women (and in some instances men) who have transgressed or allegedly contravened the social boundaries of ‘appropriateness’ as delineated by each society. Such women/men may include lesbians/gays, women who appear ‘too masculine’ or men who appear ‘too feminine,’ women who try to exercise their rights freely or men who do not assert their rights as ‘real men’ should, women/men who have been sexually assaulted or raped, and women/men who challenge male/older male authority.

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