Transformation of informal elder care practices and mobilities during the pandemic
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2149584 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Lena Näre (0000-0001-6096-9276, University of Helsinki, corresponding author), Lise Widding Isaksen (0000-0002-6717-2830, University of Bergen) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 47 |
| Issue | 14 |
| Pages | 2938-2957 |
| Publication date | 2024-10-25 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Ethnic and Racial Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0141-9870 • E-ISSN: 1466-4356 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/01419870.2024.2351635 |
| OpenAlex | W4398252598 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 40 |
The COVID-19 pandemic revealed that when formal care services closed down, informal care burden was unequally transferred to women. Women across the world became part of "caregiver pools". Using textual archive material collected by the Finnish Literature Society, we analyse the transformation of informal elder care practices in Finland. We adopt a care mobility and care process perspective to analyse how informal elder care was transformed due to social distancing measures that restricted ageing individuals and their family members' local and translocal mobilities. We find that over 70-year-olds had to adapt their daily mobilities according to risk assessment. Caregiving provided by mostly female family members was replaced by digital care at a distance, which reinforced existing inequalities in care. We argue that the pandemic simultaneously brought about both a time-space compression and what we call a time-space expansion that affected the everyday practices and mobilities of care
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19 · Demographic economics · Distancing · Inequality · Mobilities · Pandemic · Social distance · Social science · Sociology · Space (punctuation) · Aging, Elder Care, and Social Issues · Gender Studies · Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving · Medicine · Migration, Aging, and Tourism Studies
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| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,5 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2024 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |