Ageing in Sub-Saharan Africa: Spaces and Practices of Care

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Ageing in Sub-Saharan Africa

Spaces and Practices of Care

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Edited by Jaco Hoffman, North-West University - Vaal Triangle Campus, South Africa, Katrien Pype, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven

Publisher:: Bristol University Press
Online publication date:: April 2022
Print publication year:: 2016
Online ISBN:: 9781447325277
DOI:: https://doi.org/10.46692/9781447325277

Series:: Ageing in a Global Context
Subjects:: Sociology of Religion, Sociology

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This in-depth ethnographic analysis provides the pan-African evidence and analysis needed to move forward debates about who and how to address the long-term care needs of older people in Sub-Saharan Africa.

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Spaces and Practices of Care

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Frontmatter
pp i-ii

Dedication
pp iii-iv

Contents
pp v-v

Lists of photos, figures and tables
pp vi-vi

Notes on contributors
pp vii-viii

Series preface
pp ix-x

Acknowledgements
pp xi-xii

Introduction: Spaces and practices of care for older people in Sub-Saharan Africa
pp 1-20

one - Will families in Ghana continue to care for older people? Logic and contradiction in policy
pp 21-42

two - Caring for people ‘without’ value: movement, reciprocity and respect in Kinshasa’s retirement homes
pp 43-70

three - Older people providing care for older people in Tanzania: against conventions – but accepted
pp 71-94

four - Place matters: the home as a key site of old-age care in coastal Tanzania
pp 95-114

five - Care and identity in rural Malawi
pp 115-136

six - Making sense of neglect in northwest Tanzania
pp 137-158

seven - Negotiating care for older people in South Africa: between the ideal and the pragmatics
pp 159-182

Afterword: Discourses of care for older people in Sub-Saharan Africa: towards conceptual development
pp 183-202

Index
pp 203-210

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