Ageing, migration and new media

The significance of transnational care

Bibliographic Data

ID2399447
AuthorsRaelene Wilding (0000-0001-8599-5331, La Trobe University, corresponding author), L Baldassar (0000-0001-6246-4773, The University of Western Australia)
Year2018
Volume54
Issue2
Pages226-235
Publication date2018-06-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Sociology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1440-7833 • E-ISSN: 1741-2978
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/1440783318766168
OpenAlexW2796067555
LanguageEN
Citations received41
References cited23

The experiences of ageing for today's older people present a striking contrast to those of the past. They are entering older age in a world that is characterised by complex mobilities and flows, in which large numbers of people are ageing in countries other than the one in which they were born and often at a distance from their closest family members. At the same time, new media are providing unprecedented opportunities to bring distant places and people together in new ways. These dramatic shifts are transforming the context within which older people provide and receive care. In this article, we argue that it has become both necessary and urgent for researchers and practitioners of ageing to reconsider their emphasis on the proximate care networks of older people, by incorporating closer attention to the increasingly global, transnational and virtual contexts within which ageing and aged care now routinely takes place

Ageing · Context (archaeology) · Mobilities · Older people · Social science · Sociology · Gender Studies · History · Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving · Medicine · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Migration, Aging, and Tourism Studies · Gerontology

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