“Choice” in Filial Care Work: Moving beyond a Dichotomy

Funk, Laura; Kobayashi, Karen

doi:10.1111/j.1755-618x.2009.01213.x

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“…Other factors that prompt the provision of care can be feelings of guilt, or the idea that taking care of one's elderly parents is a duty one cannot avoid. In an article by Canadian researchers on a theoretical study of family caregiving, Funk and Kobayashi (2009) discuss the concept of choice. They argue that the dichotomy between choice and obligation does not reflect family caregiving experiences; that is, choice and obligation are not mutually exclusive motivations, but are relational and contextual in the interaction between macro-and micro-contexts.…”

Section: The Key Idea Of Choice/lack Of Choicementioning

confidence: 99%

Men do care! : A gender-aware and masculinity-informed contribution to caregiving scholarship

Wallroth

2016

Linköping Studies in Arts and Sciences

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In caregiving literature, it is often the female gender that has been the focus of attention, and in particular women's unpaid labor. Studies also tend to make comparisons between men's and women's caregiving, using men's caregiving experiences to show not only that women face greater burdens, but also that men's needs can be disregarded. This means that while gender analyses are not uncommon in the caregiving literature, gender tends to be equated with womanhood. The research problem that this dissertation addresses is therefore the gender bias that characterizes caregiving scholarship at present and the fact that this bias is impeding us from moving the debates on care and caregiving forward. The aim of the dissertation is twofold. Firstly, it attempts to contribute to the rectification of the gender bias in question by focusing on men's caregiving and answering the following research questions: What motivates men to provide care for their elderly parents? How do adult sons experience caregiving? What do adult sons think that care and caregiving are, i.e. what are their perspectives on care? Secondly, this dissertation also aims to explore whether a gender-aware and masculinity-informed perspective can be used to enhance our understanding of caregiving. Thus, through a phenomenological analysis of interviews with 19 caregiving adult sons and sons-in-law, this dissertation discusses how motives, experiences and perspectives, which have so far been interpreted as unique to women, are also matters that men talk about and consider important in caregiving. The dissertation argues therefore that much could be gained if we were to rectify the gender bias that characterizes the literature on family caregiving and explore caregiving men in the genderaware and masculinity-informed way that is lacking in this literature at present. Inspired by the debate within studies of masculinity, the dissertation argues that within the debate on care there is a hegemony of care which has so far tended to exclude men's perspectives on caregiving because literature on family caregiving has regarded women as the ideal caregivers. This dissertation shows that a gender-aware and masculinity-informed perspective on care can increase our understanding of family caregiving and contribute to the rectification of the gender bias that care research suffers from. Against this backdrop, it is proposed that caregiving men should not solely be regarded as empirically interesting. This is because they are an unexploited and theoretically profuse source of information about caregiving.

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Section: The Key Idea Of Choice/lack Of Choicementioning

confidence: 99%

Men do care! : A gender-aware and masculinity-informed contribution to caregiving scholarship

Wallroth

2016

Linköping Studies in Arts and Sciences

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“…Health care professionals could facilitate an honest and open dialogue with family about the caregiver role and the extent of their involvement over the course of the disease trajectory. Future research should aim to improve understanding of the issues of caregiving choice and obligation given the potential implications for family members and patient care (52).…”

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Cancer‐Related Pain in Older Adults Receiving Palliative Care: Patient and Family Caregiver Perspectives on the Experience of Pain

McPherson

Hadjistavropoulos

Lobchuk

et al. 2013

Pain Research and Management

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“…The market – through the private services of doulas, lactation consultants, etc. is variously called upon to fill the care gap [51]. To the extent that individual mothers or families rely on the market for care provision, issues of equity and quality of care are pivotal [50,52].…”

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Privatisation & marketisation of post-birth care: the hidden costs for new mothers

Benoit

Stengel

Phillips

et al. 2012

Int J Equity Health

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Retrenchment of government services has occurred across a wide range of sectors and regions. Care services, in particular, have been clawed away in the wake of fiscal policies of cost containment and neoliberal policies centred on individual responsibility and market autonomy. Such policies have included the deinstitutionalisation of care from hospitals and clinics, and early discharge from hospital, both of which are predicated on the notion that care can be provided informally within families and communities. In this paper we examine the post-birth "care crisis" that new mothers face in one region of Canada.MethodThe data are drawn from a larger study of social determinants of pregnant and new mothers' health in Victoria, Canada. Mixed methods interviews were conducted among a purposive sample of women at three points in time. This paper reports data on sample characteristics, length of stay in hospital and health service gaps. This data is contextualised via a more in-depth analysis of qualitative responses from Wave 2 (4-6 weeks postpartum).ResultsOut results show a significant portion of participants desired services that were not publically available to them during the post-birth period. Among those who reported a gap in care, the two most common barriers were: cost and unavailability of home care supports. Participants' open-ended responses revealed many positive features of the public health care system but also gaps in services, and economic barriers to receiving the care they wanted. The implications of these findings are discussed in relation to recent neoliberal reforms.Discussion & conclusionsWhile Canada may be praised for its public provision of maternity care, mothers' reports of gaps in care during the early postpartum period and increasing use of private doulas is a worrying trend. To the extent that individual mothers or families rely on the market for care provision, issues of equity and quality of care are pivotal. This paper concludes with suggestions for further research on the impact of recent changes in post-birth care on new fathers and on inequities in pre and post-birth care in less-resourced regions of the world.

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“Choice” in Filial Care Work: Moving beyond a Dichotomy

Cited by 22 publications

References 52 publications

Men do care! : A gender-aware and masculinity-informed contribution to caregiving scholarship

Men do care! : A gender-aware and masculinity-informed contribution to caregiving scholarship

Cancer‐Related Pain in Older Adults Receiving Palliative Care: Patient and Family Caregiver Perspectives on the Experience of Pain

Privatisation & marketisation of post-birth care: the hidden costs for new mothers

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