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| Minor children and adult care exchanges with community-dwelling frail elders in a St Lucian village | | Author(s) | Lisa Skemp Kelley |
| Journal title | Journals of Gerontology: Series B, Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, vol 60B, no 2, March 2005 |
| Pages | pp S62-S73 |
| Source | http://www.geron.org |
| Keywords | Children ; Adolescents ; Adults ; Personal relationships ; Living patterns ; Social surveys. |
| Annotation | Research on care of frail community-dwelling older people typically includes formal health service providers and adult members of the informal care system. Involvement of children and adolescents with elder care is largely anecdotal. This article describes children's involvement in elder care, the findings being part of an ethnographic community study that examined common Western assumptions about care of older people in a St Lucia village. Data was obtained from a 4-phase, 5-year community-based ethnographic field study that included in-depth network analysis of older households. 188 informal caregivers assisted 14 elder networks in obtaining the things they needed to live through provision of 355 care activities. 45 children aged 3-16 provided 111 of 355 (31%) care activities. The frail older people gave adults and children caregivers 196 and 94 benefits respectively. Minors are integrally involved in reciprocal exchanges for elder care in the village. Although they do not provide all of the same care as adults, they clearly assist older people, especially with running errands. Elders emphasised different motivational mechanisms for involving minor and adults in their care networks. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-050505216 A |
| Classmark | SBC: SC: SD: DS: K7: 3F |
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