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Expectations of support among White British and Asian-Indian older people in Britain
— the interdependence of formal and informal spheres | | Author(s) | Chih Hoong Sin |
| Journal title | Health & Social Care in the Community, vol 14, no 3, May 2006 |
| Pages | pp 215-224 |
| Source | www.blackwellpublishing.com/hsc |
| Keywords | White people ; Asian people ; Attitude ; Services ; Informal care ; Comparison ; Cross cultural surveys. |
| Annotation | Discourse surrounding community care characterises informal support being superior to and preferred over formal sources of support. This article argues that an individual's experiences and expectation of one type of support is often made in relation to his or her understanding, expectation and experience of other sources of support. It reports on findings from part of the ESRC Growing Older (GO) study exploring the relationship between quality of life and the social networks and support of older people from different ethnic groups. The data relate to a sample of 7 White British men, 10 White British women, 12 Asian-Indian men, and 9 Asian-Indian women aged 55+ derived from the Family Resources Survey (FRS). Findings reveal that the high level of expectation for family support among Asian-Indian respondents coexists with a high level of expectation for state support and acknowledgement that the ideal of family support may not always materialise. Among White British respondents, the high level of expectation for state support exists regardless of whether the respondent has satisfactory informal social support networks. This expectation is commonly expressed in terms of rights and entitlement by White British respondents, but not by Asian-Indians. Associated with this, Asian Indian respondents display a consistently lower level of awareness and usage of a range of health and social care services. Regardless of the extent of current and past service usage, however, respondents from both groups overwhelmingly indicate an expectation for the continued provision of such services as they would like to be able to use one or more of these at some stage. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-060606202 A |
| Classmark | TKA: TKK: DP: I: P6: 48: 3KA |
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