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| Informal care and older Native Canadians | | Author(s) | Norman Buchignani, Chris Armstrong-Esther |
| Journal title | Ageing and Society, vol 19, part 1, January 1999 |
| Pages | pp 3-32 |
| Keywords | Informal care ; Native Americans ; Health services ; Canada. |
| Annotation | Informal care to Canada's non-Native older people is provided primarily by resident wives and non-resident daughters, and secondarily by husbands and sons. Data from the pan-provincial Alberta Native Seniors Study demonstrate that Native Canadians aged 50 or over have comparatively high overall care requirements. Older Native Albertans are poor, and make extensive use of some government income support programmes. They also make moderate use of medical services. Extensive dependence on informal care, institutional barriers and local service unavailability lead Native seniors to under-use other formal programmes aimed generically at the older provincial population. Native seniors are much more likely to live with kin than are other Canadians. Informal care appears equally available to older women and men, and is provided chiefly by resident daughters, sons and spouses, and by non-resident daughters, sisters and sons. Extensive caregiving arrangements may impose a growing, double burden on many who are providing care for dependent children. Without further support, current and future requirements may significantly limit the options of caregiving women and men. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-990616201 A |
| Classmark | P6: TKH: L: 7S |
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