“Do Foreigners Deserve Rights?”—Revisited: The Role of Familiarity and Satisfaction with Foreign Home Care Services

Do not hear, see, or speak: views of older residents and their adult children about the nursing unit in the continuing care retirement community

“…Indeed, this law is highly effective in maintaining the majority of older Israelis in the community (Brodsky et al, 2011), with most LTC recipients relying on home care services as their only funded service (National Insurance Institute of Israel, 2011). Past research conducted among social workers in charge of this caregiving arrangement, care recipients, and family members has revealed very positive opinions concerning home care services especially when provided by migrant home care workers from East Europe and the Far East (Ayalon et al, 2008;Ayalon, 2014;Ayalon and Green, 2015). Apparently, even among older adults who relocated to a CCRC, a preference toward personalized home care is highly prevalent.…”

Stories of Dependency and Power: The Value of Live-In Elder Care in Israel

“…Skills associated with mothering, perceived as natural rather than acquired, go unnoticed or are dismissed as undeserving of compensation (Aronson and Neysmith 1996). Similarly, people may devalue paid, live-in elderly care simply because migrant workers perform it, drawing upon the social construction of care workers as “other” (Ayalon 2014; Duffy 2005; Ehrenreich and Hochschild 2003; Raijman, Semyonov, and Schmidt 2003; Romero 1996). As for resistance to commodification, the second mechanism, people may resist perceiving care as a commodity (Ariely 2006:71–86), fearing it may corrupt the nature of the caregiving relationship (Anderson 1995; Sandel 2000).…”

How the Law “Keeps the Money in the Family”: Lessons at the Intersection of Elder Care and Inheritance Disputes in Israel

“…Moreover, interviewees' references to sexual services were often intertwined with references to migrant caregivers. Hence, it appears that this notion may also be related to perceptions of migrant workers (e.g., Romero 1996;Duffy 2005;Raijman, Semyonov, and Schmidt 2003;Ehrenreich and Hochschild 2003;Ayalon 2014). However, as already stated above, apart from one case, all sample rulings involved Israeli citizens, and thus it was impossible to support an argument in this regard.…”