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The experience of family care-givers and migrant paid care-givers' relief of burden
— a contrasted qualitative analysis | | Author(s) | Carmen de la Cuesta Benjumea, Brenda Roe |
| Journal title | Ageing and Society, vol 34, no 7, August 2014 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press, August 2014 |
| Pages | pp 1219-1242 |
| Source | journals.cambridge.org/aso |
| Keywords | Family care ; Immigrants ; Care support workers ; Stress ; Comparison ; Qualitative Studies ; Spain. |
| Annotation | Older people are increasingly being cared for in the community across Europe. Dependent care in Spain largely remains a private issue involving family carers and migrant women from developing countries. Qualitative research on respite care has contributed to our understanding of respite as a subjective experience. Nonetheless, how care-givers relieve the burden of care is still not fully understood. Migrant care-givers are present in family life but their need for rest remains unseen. The study presented in this paper contrasts family care-givers and migrant care-givers' strategies for relief from their caring role. Care-givers rest by thinking, doing and being, but in a different manner from that of care-giving - when they are a different person. The general strategy that family care-givers use to rest from their care-giving selves is to leave the life of care-giving, while migrant care-givers turn to their own world to relieve the burden of care. The comparative analysis shows that both strategies have in common the necessity to disconnect from the care-giving identity, and that both migrant and family care-givers employ strategies that are false exits to a care-giving identity - which apparently relieve the burden of care. Respite goes beyond places, times and activities; as family care itself, it requires identity. (RH) |
| Accession Number | CPA-150602006 A |
| Classmark | P6:SJ: TJ: QRS: QNH: 48: 3DP: 76S |
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