Cati Coe

Changes in Care

Aging, Migration, and Social Class in West Africa

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

As Africa’s population ages, the inadequacy of kin care becomes more visible. In Ghana, older people and their allies are developing fragile initiatives and programs beyond the norm of kin care. Changes in Care examines aging in Ghana as a way of understanding the unevenness of social change more widely.  

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Oktober 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 156mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 513g
• ISBN-13: 9781978823259
• ISBN-10: 1978823258
• Artikelnr.: 61144579

Autorenporträt

CATI COE is a professor of anthropology at Rutgers University. She is the coeditor (with Parin Dosa) ofTransnational Aging and Reconfigurations of Kin-Work (Rutgers University Press) and the author of The New American Servitude: Political Belonging among African Immigrant Home Care Workers.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 
1 The Orthodoxy of Family Care 
Part I Changes in Aging in the Rural Towns of the Eastern Region
2 Heterodox Ideas of Elder Care: From Nursing Homes to Savings 
3 Alterodox Practices of Elder Care: Domestic Service and Neighborliness 
4 “Loneliness Kills”: Stimulating Sociality among Older Churchgoers 
Part II Changes in Aging in Urban Ghana
5 Market-Based Solutions for the Globally Connected Middle Class 
6 Going to School to Be a Carer: A New Occupation and the Enchantment of
Nursing Education 
7 Carers as Househelp: Aging and Social Inequalities in Urban Households
Conclusion 
Acknowledgments
Notes 
References 
Index