Widowed mama-grannies buffering HIV/Aids-affected households in a city slum of Kampala, Uganda
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12552174 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Nyanzi (0000-0002-6400-4014, Africa 2000 Network, corresponding author), Stella Nyanzi (a PO Box 7062, Kampala , Uganda) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 17 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 467-479 |
| Publication date | 2009-10-22 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Gender & Development (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1355-2074 • E-ISSN: 1364-9221 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/13552070903298485 |
| OpenAlex | W2022670903 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 10 |
| References cited | 13 |
This article explores the experiences, challenges and coping strategies of urban elderly residents in Kasubi-Kawaala, a slum on the margins of Kampala city, Uganda. The city is mainly stereotyped as a space for able-bodied individuals able to hustle, innovatively compete for limited resources, and accrue themselves benefits. It is widely assumed that old age causes people to retire to rural areas. Thus, the ‘urban elderly’ present an anomaly. Yet, they play a very significant role in the city. Many support dependent grandchildren, many of whom have been orphaned by AIDS
Developing country · Economic growth · Economics · Environmental health · Geography · Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV · Population · Poverty · Slum · Socioeconomics · Sociology · Child Nutrition and Water Access · HIV/AIDS Impact and Responses · Medicine · Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare · Gerontology
Pressure
Uganda’s Emerging Urban Policy Environment
Bringing Ageing to Life
Ambivalent Dis inheritance? Articulating urban rootedness and rural routedness in older-age at a time of privatisation of inherited colonial housing-estates in Jinja, Uganda
Knowledge production as feminist resistance
Resisting Hegemonic Masculinity
Age inequality
Navigating old age and the urban terrain
Multidimensional disparities, resisting inequities
Neglected older women and men
Taking care of my own blood''
The impact of HIV/Aids on the living arrangements and well-being of elderly caregivers in rural Uganda
Multiple impacts of the HIV/Aids epidemic on the aged in rural Uganda
The Plight of Older Persons as Caregivers to People Infected/Affected by HIV/Aids
This is where we buried our sons’
When the obvious brother is not there
The Widow, the Will, and Widow-inheritance in Kampala
| Unique citing works | 10 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0.77 |
| Citation span | 2013 - 2025 (13) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 10 |