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| "The show must go on": behind the scenes of elderly spousal caregiving | | Author(s) | Liora Navon, Nurit Weinblatt |
| Journal title | Journal of Aging Studies, vol 10, no 4, Winter 1996 |
| Pages | pp 329-344 |
| Keywords | Spouses as carers ; Stress ; Institutional accommodation ; Israel. |
| Annotation | Based on interviews with ten caregivers in Israel, and on observations of their daily behaviour, this article sets out to clarify why, despite the burdens of caregiving, older individuals care for their spouses at home, even when the option to institutionalise them is available. Unlike traditional ways of approaching this question, founded on emic models, the analysis presented in this article is mainly an etic one, based on the dramaturgical approach. The findings indicate that caregiving is a stage for self-deceptive play-acting, allowing caregivers to suspend time, awareness and anxiety is a way that would not have been possible had they institutionalised their spouses. The study shows that features of caregiving, usually portrayed as burdens and hardships, serve in fact as coping mechanisms, which may explain older people's willingness to care for their spouses in their own homes. (AKM). |
| Accession Number | CPA-980423242 A |
| Classmark | P6:SN: QNH: KV: 7H6 |
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