Love, work and (no) social protection.: An approach to the unpaid care of the elderly in the city of Mar del Plata, Argentina
This article analyzes the conditions of familiarization and feminization of elderly care in the city of Mar del Plata, Argentina. In the country, the social organization of care and the regulations that regulate it are marked by a marked familiarity, which restricts the opportunities for autonomy of...
Guardado en:
| Autores principales: | , , , |
|---|---|
| Formato: | Artículo revista |
| Lenguaje: | Español |
| Publicado: |
Universidad Nacional de Rosario. Facultad de Ciencia Política y Relaciones Internacionales. Escuela de Trabajo Social
2021
|
| Materias: | |
| Acceso en línea: | https://catedraparalela.unr.edu.ar/index.php/revista/article/view/297 |
| Aporte de: |
| Sumario: | This article analyzes the conditions of familiarization and feminization of elderly care in the city of Mar del Plata, Argentina. In the country, the social organization of care and the regulations that regulate it are marked by a marked familiarity, which restricts the opportunities for autonomy of caregivers and limits access to quality care and material well-being for the elderly. The State is present in situations of extreme gravity or absence of family networks, imposing the tension between abandonment and resignation of one’s own life project. The research recovered in this article began in a context prior to the declaration of the pandemic and continued, with methodological adaptations, in the first two months of the pandemic. We recover, through interviews and a self-administered questionnaire, the experience of unpaid caregivers of the elderly, their perspective on the impact of unpaid care on their life projects and subjective representations about the work they do. |
|---|