Providing Care Is Self-Care:TowardsValuing Older People's Care Provision in Global Economies

被引:8
作者
Akhter-Khan, Samia C. [1 ,2 ]
机构
[1] Humboldt Univ, Dept Psychol, Berlin, Germany
[2] Duke Univ, Dept Psychol & Neurosci, Durham, NC USA
关键词
Caregiving; Healthy aging; Feminist economics; Human evolution; Ageism; LONELINESS; EXPERIENCE; EVOLUTION; LIFE;
D O I
10.1093/geront/gnaa079
中图分类号
R4 [临床医学]; R592 [老年病学];
学科分类号
1002 ; 100203 ; 100602 ;
摘要
Older people's care provision is structurally undervalued, posing a threat to social connectedness and healthy aging. Thus, the question arises of how older people's care provision can be valued in diverse economies. By addressing this question, this article proposes a novel perspective by shedding light on the value of contributions older people provide to society, which in turn promote their own well-being. By highlighting evolutionary and proximal motives for older people to provide care, this article advances the theoretical understanding of the benefits of caregiving in the global aging context, going beyond previous successful aging approaches. These new directions aim to center older people's needs while accounting for their care provisions to fruitfully inform policymaking. Finally, the main challenge remaining for future work is to create adequate and valuable opportunities for older people to provide care as Homines curans.
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页码:631 / 639
页数:9
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