The project examines the changing understanding of the responsibility for care and the impact this has on the current configurations of elderly care in the Czech Republic. It aims to analyse the forms and implications of monetary transfers at the intersection of formal and informal elderly care, especially in the context of the market and public support for and funding of informal care, 10 years after the introduction of the attendance allowance paid to care recipients. The project will thus contribute to the theories of care that focus on the distribution of care responsibility and configuration of care practices amidst the broader socio-economic changes in late modern society.
Publikace vydané v rámci projektu (celkem 10, zobrazeno 1 - 10)
Kniha poskytuje přehled teorií a dostupného empirického výzkumu, a přehled o situaci a institucionálním uspořádání v oblasti péče o starší v České republice. Představuje výsledky vlastního empirického výzkumu veřejného a politického diskurzu o péči o seniory a biografického výzkumu neformálních pečujících v České republice.
Current data show that most elderly care in the Czech Republic, as well as worldwide, is provided by family members and in most cases women. Men also provide care, but they are less likely to do so, the intensity of the care they do provide is not as great, and the care activities they engage in are of a different type than those performed by women. This article seeks to answer two questions: What share of Czech women and men are caring for an elderly member in the family?
This article seeks to describe and explain some of the factors behind the prevalence of women in informal care for seniors. It presents a qualitative study of women who are caring for a frail elderly parent in the Czech Re-public. Care is seen as a space where gender and other intersecting identi-ties are performed and this has specific subjective, structural and material consequences.
The paper presents the comparative results of two qualitative researches on long-term informal family care in the Czech Republic: one researching the life strategies of women caring for their elderly parents and the other researching women caring for a child with a disability.
Current data show that most elderly care in the Czech Republic, as well as worldwide, is provided by family members and in most cases women. Men also provide care, but they are less likely to do so, the intensity of the care they do provide is not as great, and the care activities they engage in are of a different type than those performed by women. This article seeks to answer two questions: What share of Czech women and men are caring for an elderly member in the family?
Investigating what happens when money in the form of a cash-for-care benefit enters family relationships, this article examines long-term family care in the Czech Republic where a “care allowance” was introduced in 2007. It compares two qualitative studies: one of adult children providing care to their parents and the other of mothers caring for a disabled child; in both cases, the adults are entitled to the benefit.
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