Az életút végén. Idős emberek sorsa a Bihar vármegyei Nagylétán az 1930-as években
At the End of Life: The Welfare of the Elderly in Nagyléta, Bihar County, in the 1930s

Summary/Abstract: Thre study focuses on the society of the village of Nagyléta in Bihar County between the world wars, when agrarian workers constituted two thirds of the economically active population. The subject of analysis is the layer of elderly people who entered the latter years of their life cycle in the 1930s. Based on surviving wills and records of council meetings, Gábor Buzgó presents two seemingly conventional ways of care for the elderly: family care and council support. Through the analysis of contemporary aid provision, Buzgó’s study reveals which individuals were perceived as most vulnerable by their local community. Further, it also demonstrates how the vulnerable elderly of interwar Nagyléta selected their own carer from their family members, and in what ways they took care of passing on their belongings.

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