Identifier: TDX:3163
Authors: Chirinos Medina, Carlos Alonso
Abstract:
This study has focused its interest on exploring the experiences of family care, but in a social context that is still scarcely normalized, when the responsibility of care falls on a male caregiver, specifically, on older husbands who take care of their wives in situations of illness and disability. The study focuses on unraveling the relationships and processes involved in marital care during this period of aging and dependency. Thus, it explores the notion of constellations of care, a concept related to family care processes in terms of changes and continuities in roles according to gender, kinship and life course. Likewise, the notion of geographies of care is explored, a concept that leads us to rethink domestic and local care in terms of spaces and times: about where it occurs, how it occurs and with whom it occurs. Finally, this study addresses the how of care relationships in daily life and intimacy in the life of a couple, that is, about how caregiver husbands and their cared wives have established their care routines and practices, about how and how why 'of their conflicts, disagreements and tensions, as well as their affections, joys and satisfactions, and how they have come to establish an interdependence as a couple that becomes permeated in their bodily practices, in their sensitivity, movements and senses. Meanwhile, the purpose of this study is to contribute to the search for a transformation of current models of care, bearing witness that men can and should also take responsibility for care in dependency.
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