![]() |
![]() |
Your cart is empty |
||
Showing 1 - 1 of 1 matches in All Departments
Today's world is aging at a great speed, and although increased longevity represents one of the greatest achievements of the last century, the extension of life expectancy does not necessarily correspond to an extension of healthy lives. Aging populations, particularly those with a high percentage of the oldest old, are often burdened with chronic conditions that require extended long-term care. Deciding who provides said care, and in what forms, are key problems that will soon affect a growing number of post-industrial high- and mid-income countries. iCaring for a Livingr contributes to this debate by exploring the organization of long-term care in Italy, a country already in the midst of an eldercare crisis. There, the answer to this problem has taken the shape of home eldercare assistance, an arrangement whereby long-term care services are bought in the market in the form of private and individualized assistance by families sometimes with economic support provided by the State. The providers of these services, commonly known as "badanti" (minders), are, for the most part, im/migrant women coming from different areas of the world. iCaring for a Livingr analyzes the emergence and development of this arrangement and the role that the state, Italian families, and workers themselves play in shaping and in defining it. The author provides timely insights on: the nature of long-term care and its requirements; the specific needs of families facing this issue; the changing role of the neoliberal State; and the ways in which global political and economic processes influence and shape an apparently individually based solution to long-term care. This book is ideal for graduate courses in sociology and anthropology, specifically in courses related to gender and migration, work and women, social inequality, and immigration studies.
|
![]() ![]() You may like...
Wave-Forced Sediment Erosion and…
Yonggang Jia, Xiaolei Liu, …
Hardcover
R2,908
Discovery Miles 29 080
Advances in Friction-Stir Welding and…
M. -K Besharati-Givi, P. Asadi
Hardcover
Notch Effects in Fatigue and Fracture
G. Pluvinage, Marenglen Gjonaj
Hardcover
R4,564
Discovery Miles 45 640
Postcolonial African anthropologies
Rosabelle Boswell, Francis Nyamnjoh
Paperback
Therapy Approaches in Neurological…
Mario Bernardo-Filho, Redha Taiar, …
Hardcover
R3,329
Discovery Miles 33 290
The Fairy Tale Art of W. Heath Robinson…
Pook Press, W.Heath Robinson
Hardcover
R1,469
Discovery Miles 14 690
Formulating Ideas Uninterrupted
A P Oliveira, Angela Lee
Hardcover
|