Principles of caring to the elderly in Peruvian and Mexican families: comparative study

Family beliefs about care for older people in Central, East, Southern and West Africa and Latin America

“…Research in Mexico and Columbia finds that care may be provided in expectation of inheritance of the family home (Friedemann-Sánchez, 2012;Silva and García, 2014), but this is dependent on a will being in place. One study, undertaken in Peru and Mexico, found that children who benefit from being residents in the family home are expected to provide care, exchanging care for a place to live (Bustamante-Edquén et al, 2018). A study in Ghana similarly found that women who return to the family home following divorce or other life events are then expected to provide care in exchange for residence (Coe, 2016).…”