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As Africa’s population ages, the inadequacy of kin care becomes more visible. In Ghana, older people and their allies are developing fragile initiatives and programs beyond the norm of kin care.
Changes in Care examines aging in Ghana as a way of understanding the unevenness of social change more widely.
List of contents
Introduction
1 The Orthodoxy of Family Care
Part I Changes in Aging in the Rural Towns of the Eastern Region
2 Heterodox Ideas of Elder Care: From Nursing Homes to Savings
3 Alterodox Practices of Elder Care: Domestic Service and Neighborliness
4 "Loneliness Kills": Stimulating Sociality among Older Churchgoers
Part II Changes in Aging in Urban Ghana
5 Market-Based Solutions for the Globally Connected Middle Class
6 Going to School to Be a Carer: A New Occupation and the Enchantment of Nursing Education
7 Carers as Househelp: Aging and Social Inequalities in Urban Households
Conclusion
Acknowledgments
Notes
References
Index
About the author
CATI COE is a professor of anthropology at Rutgers University. She is the co-editor (with Parin Dosa) of Transnational Aging and Reconfigurations of Kin-Work (Rutgers University Press) and the author of The New American Servitude: Political Belonging among African Immigrant Home Care Workers.
Summary
By examining emergent discourses and practices of aging in Ghana, Changes in Care makes an innovative argument about the uneven and fragile processes by which some social change occurs.
