Homecare

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.

Autorentext

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.

Klappentext

Contemporary social policy compels seniors whorequire assistance with personal or household tasksto obtain help from 'the community'-a term that mostoften means 'women' family members. Much is writtenabout 'caregiver burden' but little research exploresthe experiences of older women who are the recipientsof home care. Social policy with its reliance onfamily as care givers is an inadequate response thatentraps and marginalizes women both as caregivers andas care recipients. Care recipients engage in workthat involves resistance and raging against injusticein their daily practice of negotiating homecare. Rageas resistance is an appropriate response to theexperience of marginalization and silencing amongolder women care recipients. Angry seniors is animage that claims rage as a legitimate force; it isan image of older women that calls for reconstructionand research to uncover its legitimate power in thedaily lives of care recipients.