Ageing in sub-Saharan Africa : spaces and practices of care / [electronic resource]
Hoffman, Jacobus Retief,1962-editor.
Pype, Katrien,editor.
This 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.
Specialized.
Specialized.
Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
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.
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.
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This 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.
Older people
Aging