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Foreign live-in domestic workers as caretakers of older Kuwaiti men and women
— socio-demographic and health correlates | | Author(s) | Nasra Shah, Hanan Badr, Makhdoom Shah |
| Journal title | Ageing and Society, vol 32, part 6, August 2012 |
| Pages | pp 1008-1029 |
| Source | http://www.journals.cambridge.org/aso |
| Keywords | Domestic workers ; Family care ; Ill health ; Physical disabilities ; Older men ; Older women ; Gulf States. |
| Annotation | This study, from Kuwait, aimed to examine: (a) age and gender differences in care provided by a domestic worker versus a family member in the performance of activities of daily living (ADL); (b) socio-demographic correlates of care during illness; and (c) self-reported physical, functional, and psychological health status in relation to care-giver. A cross-sectional household survey was conducted among 2,487 Kuwaiti nationals aged 50 years or older. Study findings revealed that domestic workers provided care to 28 per cent of men and 58 per cent of women who needed assistance with ADL; and to 14 per cent of men and 51 per cent of women during illness. These respondents ranked poorer on several health indicators and reported higher depressive symptoms than those looked after by a family member. Logistic regression indicated that care by a domestic worker was approximately seven times more likely for women than for men, about 10.8 times more likely for those without co-resident children compared with those who had three or more co-resident children, and 44 per cent less likely for the poorest compared with the richest persons. It appears that reliance on domestic workers in Kuwait is increasing and such reliance will remain necessary in the absence of culturally acceptable alternative institutional arrangements. (JL). |
| Accession Number | CPA-120925005 A |
| Classmark | XT: P6:SJ: CH: BN: BC: BD: 7EL |
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