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Elder Care in Crisis: How the Social Safety Net Fails Families by Emily K. Abel
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Item specifics
- Condition
- ISBN-13
- 9781479815395
- Book Title
- Elder Care in Crisis
- ISBN
- 9781479815395
- Subject Area
- Family & Relationships, Law, Social Science
- Publication Name
- Elder Care in Crisis : How the Social Safety Net Fails Families
- Publisher
- New York University Press
- Item Length
- 9.1 in
- Subject
- Elder Law, Eldercare, Sociology / General
- Publication Year
- 2022
- Series
- Health, Society, and Inequality Ser.
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.6 in
- Item Weight
- 14.1 Oz
- Item Width
- 6.3 in
- Number of Pages
- 232 Pages
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
New York University Press
ISBN-10
147981539X
ISBN-13
9781479815395
eBay Product ID (ePID)
22057260213
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
232 Pages
Publication Name
Elder Care in Crisis : How the Social Safety Net Fails Families
Language
English
Publication Year
2022
Subject
Elder Law, Eldercare, Sociology / General
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Family & Relationships, Law, Social Science
Series
Health, Society, and Inequality Ser.
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.6 in
Item Weight
14.1 Oz
Item Length
9.1 in
Item Width
6.3 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
2022-002063
Dewey Edition
23
Reviews
Drawing upon her deep knowledge and first-person accounts, from the nineteenth century to the COVID-19 pandemic, Emily Abel portrays both the joyful and heart-breaking aspects of family caregivers' struggles to care for elderly people with dementia. This book will spur everyone to ask: why don't we as a country do better for both the elderly and their caregivers?, Abel writes with empathy for direct caregivers as a family caregiver herself as well as a cancer survivor. While we are all familiar with how nursing homes failed during the pandemic, these stories of family members fighting for their institutionalized relatives, still feel new and crucially important to read. * Meika Loe, author of Aging our Way: Lessons for Living from 85 and Beyond * Drawing upon her deep knowledge and first-person accounts, from the nineteenth century to the COVID-19 pandemic, Emily Abel portrays both the joyful and heart-breaking aspects of family caregivers' struggles to care for elderly people with dementia. This book will spur everyone to ask: why don't we as a country do better for both the elderly and their caregivers? * Joan C. Tronto, author of Caring Democracy: Markets, Equality and Justice * Here you have a poignant, thoughtful, and extraordinarily useful account of trends that will curse us all unless we take action now. Call it investment in infrastructure, improved social insurance, commitment to common decency, or all of the above: we need a better, more sustainable system of care provision. The qualitative research highlighted here helps show us the way forward. * Nancy Folbre, author of Valuing Children: Rethinking the Economics of the Family *, The author's observations, anecdotes, and notes yield a perspective that challenges the current system of long-term care. The author eschews providing simplistic answers, allowing those most concerned--currently active caregivers--to speak for themselves., Here you have a poignant, thoughtful, and extraordinarily useful account of trends that will curse us all unless we take action now. Call it investment in infrastructure, improved social insurance, commitment to common decency, or all of the above: we need a better, more sustainable system of care provision. The qualitative research highlighted here helps show us the way forward., Abel returns to important questions about carework 30 years after her first book, and finds dramatic changes in direct care resources and the context of care. She writes with empathy for direct caregivers as a family caregiver herself as well as a cancer survivor. My favorite sections of the book focus on dementia care, particularly her look at Arthur Kleinman's transformation into a dementia caregiver, and when Abel takes a contemporary turn and focuses on the ways in which the pandemic exposed and exacerbated the crisis in care. While we are all familiar with how nursing homes failed during the pandemic, these stories of family members fighting for their institutionalized relatives, still feel new and crucially important to read. These are the stories that Abel leaves us with, along with a strident call for change, in the conclusion of her book., Abel writes with empathy for direct caregivers as a family caregiver herself as well as a cancer survivor. While we are all familiar with how nursing homes failed during the pandemic, these stories of family members fighting for their institutionalized relatives, still feel new and crucially important to read.
Series Volume Number
2
Dewey Decimal
362.60973
Synopsis
Explains why there is a crisis in caring for elderly people and how the COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated it Because 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 publicly funded long-term care services, many ......, Explains why there is a crisis in caring for elderly people and how the COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated it Because 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 publicly funded long-term care services, many family caregivers cannot find relief from obligations that threaten to overwhelm them. The crisis also stems from the plight of direct care workers (nursing home assistants and home health aides), most of whom are women from racially marginalized groups who receive little respect, remuneration, or job security. Drawing on an online support group for people caring for spouses and partners with dementia, Elder Care in Crisis examines the availability and quality of respite care (which provides temporary relief from the burdens of care), the long, tortuous process through which family members decide whether to move spouses and partners to institutions, and the likelihood that caregivers will engage in political action to demand greater public support. When the pandemic began, caregivers watched in horror as nursing homes turned into deathtraps and then locked their doors to visitors. Terrified by the possibility of loved ones in nursing homes contracting the disease or suffering from loneliness, some caregivers brought them home. Others endured the pain of leaving relatives with severe cognitive impairments at the hospital door and the difficulties of sheltering in place with people with dementia who could not understand safety regulations or describe their symptoms. Direct care workers were compelled to accept unsafe conditions or leave the labor force. At the same time, however, the disaster provided an impetus for change and helped activists and scholars develop a vision of a future in which care is central to social life. Elder Care in Crisis exposes the harrowing state of growing old in America, offering concrete solutions and illustrating why they are necessary., In 2020, when COVID-19 struck, the crisis in caring for the elderly was already in full swing. The elderly constitute about 17 percent of the population, with the number of Americans eighty-five and over rising dramatically; they are the fastest-growing segment of the population. Elder Care in Crisis put these issues into stark relief by focusing on how the pandemic both revealed and reinforce the many crises around elder care. Emily K. Abel shines a bright light on the deficiencies of the elder care system but also alerts us to the urgent need for social change by exposing the calamitous conditions of nursing homes, the lack of respect for the work of care, and the indifference of federal and state officials to human suffering. This book also demonstrates how our elder care system rests on the exploitation of direct-care workers, mostly women and people of color, who are paid too little to make ends meet. Elder Care in Crisis exposes the harrowing state of the elder care crisis in America and offers suggestions about how the crisis can be fixed and explains why change is imperative. Book jacket.
LC Classification Number
HV1461.A239 2022
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