Opieka nad zależnymi osobami starszymi w rodzinie: ryzyko i ambiwalencja
Family Caregiving for Frail Older Adults: Risk and Ambivalence

Summary/Abstract: The paper analyzes the term of informal caregiving for frail older adults as a dynamic process of both instrumental (unsettled activity sets, places and interpersonal connections) and emotional character. We depict informal caregiver’s “social” risk as inadequately anticipated by social policies in Europe. In post-transformational countries relying on kin and social networks is generally the solely accessible and necessary strategy to adapt by frail older adult in the face of needs’ deprivation – a consequence of poverty and weakness of institutional support. However, sociocultural and demographic changes denote an increase in the meaning of emotions and resulting choices when taking up the strain of caregiving for frail older adults. Moreover, dynamic intergenerational relations are about to be of more and more ambivalent nature.

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