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Perceived caregiver burden in India: implications for social services
- Authors:
- GUPTA Rashmi, ROWE Nancy, PILLAI Vijayan K.
- Journal article citation:
- Affilia: Journal of Women and Social Work, 24(1), February 2009, pp.69-79.
- Publisher:
- Sage
This study explores the influences of selected social and social psychological factors that are associated with perceived caregiver burden in a sample of 263 primary caregivers of the elderly in Allahabad City in northern India. The results indicate that although male caregivers' perceived burden depends only on the size of the role overload, female caregivers' perceived burden depends on the interrelationship between the size of the role overload and adherence to Asian cultural norms. Implications of the findings for social work are discussed.
Connecting gender and ageing: a sociological approach
- Editors:
- ARBER Sara, GINN Jay
- Publisher:
- Open University Press
- Publication year:
- 1995
- Pagination:
- 224p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Buckingham
Challenges the assumption that gender can be treated as static over the life course and highlights the differential social effects of ageing on women's and men's roles, relationships and identity. Includes papers on: conformity and resistance as women age; choice and constraint in the retirement of older married women; the married lives of older people; changes in gender roles in advanced old age; caring between older couples; gender roles, employment and informal care; and gender and elder abuse.
Dynamics of health and ageing in Switzerland from a gender perspective
- Authors:
- STUCKELBURGER Astrid, HOPFLINGER Francois
- Journal article citation:
- Ageing International, 24(4), Spring 1998, pp.62-84.
- Publisher:
- Springer
- Place of publication:
- New York
At all ages throughout most social groups, women exhibit a longer life expectancy than men, and therefore are much more affected by all aspects of ageing. However, the 'feminisation of ageing' has, for a long time, been neglected in much of the gerontological or geriatric research. Only in recent decades has research focused more on the way women and men differ in facing changes during their life course. This article examines the issues.
Social workers, old women and female carers: feminist reflections on the relevance of gender
- Author:
- REES Catherine
- Publisher:
- University of East Anglia
- Publication year:
- 1991
- Pagination:
- 39p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Norwich
Puts gender issues in the context of social work as a whole and goes on to focus on experiences and perceptions of residential care and professional support received. Focuses on what should be the ideal professional response to gender issues, and constraints on this response.
Women's issues in social policy
- Editors:
- MACLEAN Mavis, GROVES Dulcie
- Publisher:
- Routledge
- Publication year:
- 1991
- Pagination:
- 247p.tables,bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- London
Collection of papers written from a feminist perspective. Issues looked at include women and poverty, women and transport, women and old age, and women and community care. Also contains a chapter reviewing recent debates about child care.
Gender and ageing: changing roles and relationships
- Editor:
- ARBER Sara
- Publisher:
- Open University Press
- Publication year:
- 2003
- Pagination:
- 213p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Maidenhead
Previous work on gender and ageing was dominated by a focus on older women. The present collection breaks with this tradition by emphasizing changing gender roles and relationships, gender identity and an examination of masculinities in midlife and later life. A theme running through the book is the need to reconceptualize partnership status, in order to understand the implications of both widowhood and divorce for older women and men, as well as new forms of relationships, such as Living Apart Together (LAT-relationships). There is also an underlying focus on how socio-economic circumstances influence the experiences of ageing and the ways transitions are negotiated.
Gender and community care: social work and social care perspectives
- Author:
- ORME Joan
- Publisher:
- Palgrave
- Publication year:
- 2001
- Pagination:
- 276p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Basingstoke
Discusses the gender assumptions behind social work practice and community care, and reveals the impact these have on men and women as providers and recipients of care. Outlines feminist theory and relates this to the development of policy and practice in community care. Goes on to explore how assumptions coloured by gender have influenced services to different user groups, such as people with mental health problems, older people, and disabled people. Ends by examining how good practice can be developed in regard to these issues.
Listening to older women with dementia: relationships, voices and power
- Author:
- PROCTOR Gillian
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 16(3), May 2001, pp.361-376.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
Four older women with dementia were interviewed about their experiences of their services. Gaps in previous research concerning people with dementia is presented, with respect to listening to people with dementia themselves and with respect to gender issues. The present study is described and the methodology for analysis, the Voice Relational Method, is presented. This method was developed to listen to adolescent girls and has been used to listen to the voices of others who are disempowered in society. The methodology is presented in the context of debates within feminist and disability research. The results of the interviews are discussed, particularly with respect to power in the women's relationships, and particularly the relationships between the women and medical staff. Some implications of the power issues are presented and recommendations are made.