Caring for Elderly Parents: A New Commitment of the Third Age
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F68378025%3A_____%2F15%3A00454770" target="_blank" >RIV/68378025:_____/15:00454770 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.13060/00380288.2015.51.6.223" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.13060/00380288.2015.51.6.223</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.13060/00380288.2015.51.6.223" target="_blank" >10.13060/00380288.2015.51.6.223</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Caring for Elderly Parents: A New Commitment of the Third Age
Original language description
The article explores the practices of elderly care in the Czech Republic from the life-course perspective, using qualitative research methodology: biographical interviews with women providing everyday care to their parents. The case of elderly care presents an opportunity to critically examine the concepts of the third age? and young old?, that have figured prominently in theoretical and political debates concerning the life stage in which the need to care for one s parents seems most likely to arise. In the collective story? based on the narratives of women aged 50-66 who provided everyday care for their elderly mother, I identify and describe the factors that influence how nthis stage in life unfolds and the decisions women make about their life/life course. I argue that in contemporary Czech society young old age? cannot be defined in terms of the absence of work commitments or the absence family care commitments, and that the original concepts dealing with this new period in life
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>x</sub> - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)
CEP classification
AO - Sociology, demography
OECD FORD branch
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Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/GPP404%2F12%2FP053" target="_blank" >GPP404/12/P053: Discursive framing and day-to-day experience of elderly care in the Czech Republic</a><br>
Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2015
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Sociologický časopis-Czech Sociological Review
ISSN
0038-0288
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
51
Issue of the periodical within the volume
6
Country of publishing house
CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC
Number of pages
26
Pages from-to
903-928
UT code for WoS article
000370301700002
EID of the result in the Scopus database
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