2004
DOI: 10.1157/13061998
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El impacto de cuidar en la salud y la calidad de vida de las mujeres

Abstract: The present study demonstrates the need to reorganize health and social policies and to provide sufficient resources to meet the increasing need for informal care and to mitigate the impact and costs of caregiving on diverse aspects of women's lives.

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“…As already mentioned, the majority of the women are those who take on the role of primary caregiver in the family, accumulating responsibility for domestic tasks and childcare. 8,14,15 In this way, we understand the identity that Mead calls the self as the product of social interaction that is developed in the process of acquiring social roles in society, where the subject is the most relevant actor in social construction, adapting social roles in a context of Symbolization, interpretation and adaptation to the surrounding reality and to their personal identity reality. However, this process needs concrete development of behaviors and expectations.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…As already mentioned, the majority of the women are those who take on the role of primary caregiver in the family, accumulating responsibility for domestic tasks and childcare. 8,14,15 In this way, we understand the identity that Mead calls the self as the product of social interaction that is developed in the process of acquiring social roles in society, where the subject is the most relevant actor in social construction, adapting social roles in a context of Symbolization, interpretation and adaptation to the surrounding reality and to their personal identity reality. However, this process needs concrete development of behaviors and expectations.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…A este hecho se unen las transformaciones sociales y familiares (disminución del tamaño familiar, cambios en la estructura y funcionamiento de la familia y creciente participación femenina en el mercado laboral) que incrementa las dificultades para la prestación de cuidados cotidianos a familiares dependientes 1 . La conjunción de estos factores ha situado el cuidado informal en el centro del debate de las políticas sociales y de bienestar y son responsables de creciente interés en el estudio del cuidado informal y los modos de abordarlo 2,3 .…”
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“…Frente al parentesco con el receptor de cuidados, se observa comúnmente es la madre quien asume el rol de cuidadora; sin embargo para este caso es la hermana mayor, situación también común en Colombia y en el fenómeno del cuidado familiar, pues al no poder la madre asumir este rol, otra de las mujeres de la familia, con disposición y disponibilidad de tiempo, entra a asumirlo (21).…”
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