Elder Care in Crisis : : How the Social Safety Net Fails Families / / Emily K. Abel.
Explains why there is a crisis in caring for elderly people and how the COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated itBecause government policies are based on an ethic of family responsibility, repeated calls to support family members caring for the burgeoning elderly population have gone unanswered. Without publ...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2022] ©2022 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Health, Society, and Inequality ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction: New Perspectives on Caregiving
- 1 Reformulating Stress and Burden
- 2 Challenging the Medical Model of Dementia
- 3 Looking to the Past: What the Nineteenth Century Can Tell Us
- 4 The Elder Care Crisis: The Tyranny of the Family-Responsibility Ethic
- 5 “That Was No Respite for Me!” Using Services at Home and in the Community
- 6 “They Can’t Possibly Love Him as I Do” The Anguish of Institutional Placement
- 7 “Oh No, Don’t Feel Guilty” Advising Others and Fighting Back
- 8 “No One Is Coming out of This Unscathed” The Nursing Home Tragedy in the Pandemic
- 9 “This Being Homebound Is So Hard” Confronting Hospital Regulations, Sheltering in Place, and Interacting with Workers
- Conclusion: How the Pandemic Exposed and Exacerbated the Crisis in Care
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Index
- About the Author