Caregiving as mobility constraint and opportunity: married daughters providing end of life care in northern Ghana

Hanrahan, Kelsey B.

doi:10.1080/14649365.2016.1257734

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“…Nor should it be assumed that care-giving is ensured simply by the traditional norms of extended family relationships, when families are spatially separated. For example, a recent study of the mobility constraints experienced by married and externally-resident daughters providing end of life care to parents in northern Ghana shows how these younger women had to negotiate conflicting responsibilities to provide parental care [73]. Similar issues are identified for settings in a recent comparative study on Manila and London [74].…”

Section: Mobility Transport and Social Supportmentioning

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Older People, Mobility and Transport in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Review of the Research

Gorman

Jones

Turner³

2019

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Older populations are rising globally, which in high-income countries has helped to generate a growing literature on the impact of ageing on travel requirements and transport policy. This article aims to provide an initial assessment of the state of knowledge on the impact on transportation policy and usage of the increasing numbers of older people in low- and middle-income countries (LAMICs), through a review of the literature relating to older people and transportation. As both the academic and policy/practice-related literature specifically addressing ageing and transport in LAMICs is limited, the study looks beyond transportation to assess the state of knowledge regarding the ways in which older people’s mobility is affected by issues, such as health, well-being, social (dis)engagement and gender. We find significant knowledge gaps, resulting in an evidence base to support the implementation of policy is lacking. Most research in low-income countries (LICs) is either broad quantitative analysis based on national survey data or small-scale qualitative studies. We conclude that, although study of the differing contexts of ageing in LAMICs as they relate to older people’s mobilities and transport use has barely begun, institutions which both make and influence policymaking recognise the existence of significant knowledge gaps. This should provide the context in which research agendas can be established.

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Section: Mobility Transport and Social Supportmentioning

confidence: 80%

Older People, Mobility and Transport in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Review of the Research

Gorman

Jones

Turner³

2019

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“…These disparities could be a result of different urban settings, or rather this could point out that time among parents is destined to trips other than commuting. On the other hand, in the Spanish context, the presence of elders in the household could also be an important factor to be considered, as these represent a highly dependent collective in terms of daily mobility (Camarero & Oliva ), and their care can imply considerable mobility constraints (Hanrahan ). All of these household or social relations mediating in spatiotemporal behaviour can be highly gendered (Law ; Schwanen et al .…”

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confidence: 99%

A Relational Perspective on Everyday Mobility in the Barcelona Metropolitan Region: Individual and Household‐Related Differences in Daily Travel Time

Delclòs‐Alió

Miralles‐Guasch

2018

Tijd voor Econ & Soc Geog

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The collective dimension of everyday life plays a key role on how daily mobility patterns are drawn, especially considering relationships at the household level. However, previous literature regarding spatiotemporal behaviour has, above all, focused on individual characteristics detached from their immediate social contexts. By adopting a relational perspective this paper aims to explore how the combination of individual and household-related variables can exert different mobilities in a Mediterranean metropolis such as Barcelona. Based on travel times and trip purposes reported in a traditional travel survey, both gender and social status are first confirmed as significant factors shaping daily mobility. Second, the relationships in the household emerge as relevant as individual characteristics when understanding one's everyday mobility patterns. In particular, the presence of children is regarded as a clear spatiotemporal constrictor, which is especially acute for women.

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“…In addition, care has been conceptualised as the actions and encounters between two (or more) individuals that arise from attentiveness to another – their needs and their well‐being (Brown, ; Conradson, ; Wiles, ). Geographers have considered the construction of care within relationships and in so doing, they have highlighted the interdependencies between individuals that emerge therein (Bartos, ; Evans, , ; Hanrahan, ; Milligan, ).…”

Section: Relationships and Connectedness Within Geographies Of Carementioning

confidence: 99%

“…In Ghana, adult daughters must negotiate familial labour and care obligations during periods of an elderly parent's dependency. Providing this care is associated with significant shifts in women's labour, resulting in strained material circumstances and emotional tensions with the husband and children (Hanrahan, ). Evans, working in Tanzania, Uganda () and Senegal (), has demonstrated these connections in the transitions youth undergo in periods of illness and bereavement of parents, as they move into the role of carer for an ill parent and/or their siblings.…”

Section: Relationships and Connectedness Within Geographies Of Carementioning

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The spaces in between care: Considerations of connection and disconnection for subjects of care

Hanrahan

2018

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Drawing on work that explores human vulnerability and the incoherence of the subject in the process of subject formation, I build on the ideas of care as relational and connectedness within human geography. I examine how, in the process of becoming subjects of care, subjects encounter incoherence within themselves and between each other. I explore how this incoherence within and between subjects can be thought of as a disconnection, or the space in between subjects, and how the relationship of care can be conceptualised as the navigation of disconnections as those becoming subjects of care work to build connections. In this paper, I examine ethnographic data from northern Ghana, focusing in on the relationships of care that were constructed during one woman's end of life, highlighting the ways in which connections were forged across spaces of disconnect during the receipt and provision of care. Consideration of these spaces in between has the potential to contribute to our understandings of the experiences of the relational construction of care for both the recipients and providers of care. It also has the potential to contribute an understanding of the meaning and process of care that construct highly contingent and varied outcomesranging from soothing and supportive to distressing and invasivefor those involved.

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Caregiving as mobility constraint and opportunity: married daughters providing end of life care in northern Ghana

Cited by 19 publications

References 49 publications

Older People, Mobility and Transport in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Review of the Research

Older People, Mobility and Transport in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Review of the Research

A Relational Perspective on Everyday Mobility in the Barcelona Metropolitan Region: Individual and Household‐Related Differences in Daily Travel Time

The spaces in between care: Considerations of connection and disconnection for subjects of care

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