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| Australian-Chinese families caring for elderly relatives | | Author(s) | Lia Bryant, Suzane Lim |
| Journal title | Ageing and Society, vol 33, no 8, November 2013 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press, November 2013 |
| Pages | pp 1401-1421 |
| Source | journals.cambridge.org/aso |
| Keywords | Chinese people ; Family care ; Parents ; Children [offspring] ; Interviewing ; Australia. |
| Annotation | Caring for older relatives has predominately been explored from the standpoint of the needs and experiences of the hegemonic culture in multicultural countries like Australia, Canada and the United States of America. Australia, in particular, has paid scant attention to cultural and linguistically diverse groups in relation to caring for the aged. In this paper, the authors focus on Chinese-Australian families caring for ageing relatives. They explore the traditional value of filial piety which is said to underpin social norms and beliefs about caring for aged parents in Chinese cultures. Specifically, they draw on four in-depth interviews with Chinese-Australian care-givers of older relatives to identify meanings of filial piety and practices of filial piety. Findings indicate that while filial piety is still an important value in caring for the aged, meanings about how to practise filial piety are changing and vary across families. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-131018212 A |
| Classmark | TKL: P6:SJ: SR: SS: 3DL: 7YA |
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