Ageing in Sub-Saharan Africa : Spaces and Practices of Care

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In-depth ethnographic analysis provides the pan-African evidence and analysis needed to move forward debates about who and how to address the long term care needs of older people in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Hoffman, Jaco
Otros Autores: Pype, Katrien
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bristol : Policy Press, 2016.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Older people > Care > Africa, Sub-Saharan.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Intro
  • AGEING IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA
  • Contents
  • Lists of photos, figures and tables
  • Photos
  • Figures
  • Tables
  • Notes on contributors
  • Series preface
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction: Spaces and practices of care for older people in Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Background
  • Aims and scope
  • Themes: spaces of care and care practices
  • A chronological orientation of chapters in this volume
  • Directions for further research
  • 1. Will families in Ghana continue to care for older people? Logic and contradiction in policy
  • Introduction
  • Ageing and care in Kwahu-Tafo
  • Non-policy on welfare of older people
  • Local initiatives and resistance
  • Conclusion
  • 2. Caring for people 'without' value: movement, reciprocity and respect in Kinshasa's retirement homes
  • Introduction
  • Being 'old' in Kinshasa
  • Houses of bandoki
  • Mobility of older people
  • Housing matters
  • Becoming an indigent
  • Caring benefactors
  • Social exclusion done and undone
  • 3. Older people providing care for older people in Tanzania: against conventions
  • but accepted
  • Introduction: older people as care providers
  • Research setting and methodology
  • Care and eldercare
  • Elder-to-elder care arrangements in Tanzania
  • Main care activities in elder-to-elder care arrangements and care burdens
  • Extended care arrangements in critical health situations
  • Non-kin care and institutionalised eldercare
  • Discussion
  • 4. Place matters: the home as a key site of old-age care in coastal Tanzania
  • Introduction
  • Study sites and methodology
  • The body
  • The home
  • Carescapes
  • Conclusions
  • 5. Care and identity in rural Malawi
  • Introduction
  • Methodology
  • The corporality of care in Balaka
  • The corporality of identity
  • Threat to the adult identity presented by needing and receiving care in old age
  • The childlike 'possible self'
  • Conclusion.
  • 6. Making sense of neglect in northwest Tanzania
  • Introduction
  • Storytelling and events
  • Experiences of ageing in northwest Tanzania
  • When the body turns frail: Tophista's loss of care in advanced old age
  • Talking neglect
  • Non-kin care
  • Conclusion
  • 7. Negotiating care for older people in South Africa: between the ideal and the pragmatics
  • Introduction
  • South African context
  • The contemporary core Emalahleni care narrative
  • Conclusion
  • Afterword: Discourses of care for older people in Sub-Saharan Africa: towards conceptual development
  • Discourses on care in this volume
  • Index.

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