?A pendular movement between the intergenerational pact and the exhaustion of support networks in Argentina?

ODDONE, MARÍA JULIETA; AGUIRRE, MÓNICA

in Paoletti, Isabella (Editors) Family Caregiving for Oder Disabled People: Relational and Institutional Issues.

Nova Publishers

Lugar: New York; Año: 2007; p. 35 - 62

The objective of this study is to reach an understanding of the problems that confront families burdened by the care of an elderly person with health problems. To this end, we approached key participants in ?Caring for Those Who Care,? a Buenos Aires City Government program. Basing our study on this organization, we interviewed family caregivers who have participated in the program. We worked with a sample of caregivers composed of spouses, sons and daughters, sons- and daughters-in-law, and grandchildren. The group of caregivers as well as the group of dependents includes participants of both genders; this permitted us to obtain a spread of cases ranging widely with regards to generation, to gender, and to familiar relationship; from these cases emerged the key issues in the caregiver´ s situation to which we refer in this chapter.