Caring and Contributing: The Role of Older Women in Rural South African Multi-generational Households in the HIV/AIDS Era

Schatz, Enid; Ogunmefun, Catherine

doi:10.1016/j.worlddev.2007.04.004

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“…The literature reveals that many persons affected by HIV and AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa remain at home, with the main burden of their care resting almost entirely on family members, who in most cases are elderly females (Kipp et al 2007:857;Schatz & Ogunmefun 2007:1392Bock & Johnson 2008;Baylies 2002;Nel 2004;Ogunmefun & Schatz 2009). The literature also shows that whilst the economic consequences for the elderly who give care to the sick and orphans or have lost children to HIV and AIDS cannot be quantified, their impact is great.…”

Section: Economic Impactmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The care-giving role of the elderly is such that it overwhelms their livelihood, forcing them to contend with various demands in terms of coping with increased health care costs, including debts incurred as a result of HIV and AIDS-related illnesses (HelpAge International 2003;Ssengonzi 2007:349;Okayo 2004) and meeting the transport and medical costs of ailing children (May 2003;Ssengonzi 2007:349), paying school fees for orphaned grandchildren (HelpAge International 2003;Nel 2004), and paying the funeral expenses of their family members (Kipp et al 2007:859;Schatz & Ogunmefun 2007:1392Bock & Johnson 2008;Baylies 2002;Nel 2004;Fouad 2004). They also have to meet the costs of grandchildren (some of whom may be HIV positive) for whom they must now provide care (HelpAge International 2003;Ssengonzi 2007:249;Okayo 2004).…”

Section: Economic Impactmentioning

confidence: 99%

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A literature review of the impact of HIV and AIDS on the role of the elderly in the sub-Saharan African community

Mokgele

2011

Health SA Gesondheid

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The status of older adults in Africa occupies a small but rapidly expanding share of the global literature on ageing. The human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) pandemic has generated a new focus on the changing role of the elderly in communities that have been affected. In sub-Saharan Africa, where millions are projected to be infected with HIV and about two million deaths are recorded annually amongst the traditionally productive adults, such loss of parents and breadwinners means children and the elderly have had to take up unusual responsibilities. A literature review on the elderly and HIV and AIDS provided the data analysed for this article. Access to databases was mainly via EBSCO (www.ebsco.co), which allowed searches in major databases and search engines useful in an academic setting for finding and accessing articles in health and health-related academic journals, repositories and archived reports. Results showed that the AIDS pandemic has direct and indirect effects which have manifested in a set of interrelated social, economic and psychological dimensions that could ultimately impact on the health and well-being of the elderly. It is concluded that more needs to be done to articulate the knowledge base of the impact of HIV and AIDS in order to inform social, economic and political policies for the purpose of alleviating the problems that the pandemic is wreaking on the elderly African population.OpsommingDie status van ouer volwassenes in Afrika beklee’n klein, maar vinnig groeiende deel van die globale verouderings literatuur. Die menslike immuniteitsgebreksvirus (MIV) en verworwe immuniteitsgebreksindroom (VIGS) pandemie het ‘n nuwe fokus op die veranderende rol van bejaardes in die gemeenskap wat deur VIGS beïnvloed word, gegenereer. In sub-Sahara Afrika waar na beraming miljoene geïnfekteer word met MIV, met sowat twee miljoen sterftes jaarliks gerekordeer onder die tradisoneel produktiewe volwassenes, word daar van die kinders en bejaardes verwag om ongewone verantwoordelikhede op hulle te neem as gevolg van die verlies aan ouers of broodwinners. ‘n Literatuuroorsig wat handel oor bejaardes en MIV en VIGS het die geanaliseerde data voorsien vir hierdie artikel. Toegang tot die databasis was meestal deur EBSCO (www.ebsco.co) wat soektog toegelaat het tot groot databasisse en soekenjins wat bruikbaar in die akademiese opset is en die vind van artikels aangaande gesondheid, gesondheidverwante akademiese joernale en argief verslae. Bevindings toon dat die VIGS pandemie direkte en indirekte effekte het. Hierdie effekte manifisteer in ‘n stel sosiaal verwante, ekonomiese en psigologiese dimensies wat ten einde ‘n impak op die gesondheid en welstand van bejaardes het. Daar is tot die gevolgtrekking gekom dat meer gedoen moet word om die kennis basis van MIV en VIGS te artikuleer om die sosiale, ekonomiese en politiese beleid in kennis te stel, om sodoende die resulterende probleme van MIV en VIGS op die ...

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Section: Economic Impactmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Economic Impactmentioning

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A literature review of the impact of HIV and AIDS on the role of the elderly in the sub-Saharan African community

Mokgele

2011

Health SA Gesondheid

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“…The extended family has a meaningful role to play where members can offer support, ranging from the provision of emotional support to material resources (Padi, Nduna, Khunou & Kholopane, 2014;Smit, 2001). Each person, regardless of age, is able to add value to the household as the elderly are often caregivers, and children help with chores around the house (Schatz & Ogunmefun, 2007). Children learn customs and traditions, and are removed from negative cultural contexts, particularly when they reside where their parents are employed and are able to give adequate adult supervision (Ramphele & Richter, 2006).…”

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Distance Parenting – Implications for Social Work Practice

Seepamore

2016

SWORK

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Many families in the Global South are inclined to split in order to survive the complex socio-economic conditions in which they find themselves. Labour migration is entrenched in South Africa and so is parenting from a distance. This paper contests the normalisation of split families and distance parenting, and considers the associated implications for children, their parents and substitute caregivers. It further discusses the persistence of stereotypical gender roles in parenting, even where both parents are absent from home. Finally, some recommendations are made for both practitioners and policy makers in relation to distance parenting.

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“…Research emphasizes the importance of particularly grandmothers in providing financial and physical support to coresident young children (Duflo 2003;Case and Menendez 2007;Schatz and Ogunmefun 2007). An important source of the financial support derives from the social pension, a means-tested and noncontributory social grant paid to men and women on reaching the age of 60.…”

Section: The South African Contextmentioning

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Sequencing the real time of the elderly: Evidence from South Africa

Grapsa¹,

Posel²

2016

DemRes

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BACKGROUNDUnderstanding how the elderly in developing countries spend their time has received little attention. Moreover, the potential of time use data to discern variation in activity patterns has not been fully realized by methods which use a mean added time approach. OBJECTIVESTo uncover patterns of time use among the elderly (60 years and older) in South Africa by applying an innovative methodology that incorporates the timing, duration, and frequency of activities in the analysis. METHODSWe use sequence analysis, which treats the daily series of activities of each individual as a sequence, and cluster analysis, to group these sequences into common clusters of time use behaviour. We then estimate multinomial logit regressions to identify the characteristics of the elderly which predict cluster membership. RESULTSWe find that the time use behaviour of the elderly in South Africa can be divided into five distinct clusters, according to the relative importance in their day of personal care, household maintenance, work, mass media, and social or cultural activities. In comparison to men, women are overrepresented in the cluster where household work dominates, while they are underrepresented in the cluster of the elderly who engage in production work. A range of other individual and household characteristics are also important in predicting cluster membership.

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Caring and Contributing: The Role of Older Women in Rural South African Multi-generational Households in the HIV/AIDS Era

Cited by 168 publications

References 20 publications

A literature review of the impact of HIV and AIDS on the role of the elderly in the sub-Saharan African community

A literature review of the impact of HIV and AIDS on the role of the elderly in the sub-Saharan African community

Distance Parenting – Implications for Social Work Practice

Sequencing the real time of the elderly: Evidence from South Africa

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