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'Taking care of my own blood': older women's relationships to their households in rural South Africa.

Content Provider	World Health Organization (WHO)-Global Index Medicus
Author	Schatz, Enid J.
Spatial Coverage	South Africa
Description	Country affiliation: South Africa Author Affiliation: Schatz EJ ( University of Missouri-Columbia, University of Colorado-Boulder, USA & MRC/Wits Rural Public Health and Health Transitions Research Unit (Agincourt), School of Public Health, University of Witwatersrand, South Africa. schatzej@health.missouri.edu)
Abstract	AIM: This paper examines financial, emotional, and physical responsibilities elderly women are being asked to take on due to the incapacity of their adult children to care for the next generation; such incapacity is likely to increase as the HIV/AIDS epidemic worsens. METHODS: This paper combines quantitative and qualitative data. Census data from the Agincourt health and demographic surveillance system (AHDSS) describe the presence of the elderly (specifically women over the age of 60 and men over the age of 65) in households in the Agincourt study site. Semi-structured interviews with 30 female residents aged 60-75 complement the census data by exploring the roles that older women, in particular, are playing in their households. RESULTS: An elderly man and/or woman lives in 27.6% of households; 86% of elders live with non-elders. Households with a woman over the age of 60 resident (as opposed to those without) are twice as likely to have a fostered child living in the household and three times as likely to have an orphaned child in the household. Elderly women face financial, physical, and emotional burdens related to the morbidity and mortality of their adult children, and to caring for grandchildren left behind due to adult children's mortality, migration, (re)marriage, and unemployment. CONCLUSIONS: Older women provide crucial financial, physical, and emotional support for ill adult children and fostered and orphaned grandchildren in their households. As more prime-aged adults suffer from HIV/AIDS-related morbidity and mortality, these obligations are likely to increase.
File Format	HTM / HTML
ISSN	14034948
e-ISSN	16511905
Journal	Scandinavian Journal of Public Health
Volume Number	69
Language	English
Publisher	Sage Publication
Publisher Date	2007-08-01
Publisher Place	Great Britain (UK)
Access Restriction	Open
Subject Keyword	Discipline Epidemiology Discipline Public Health Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome Caregivers Cost Of Illness Family Characteristics Hiv Infections Epidemiology Mortality Psychology Adult Children Aging Disease Outbreaks Population Surveillance Rural Population Sex Factors Socioeconomic Factors Research Support, N.i.h., Extramural Research Support, Non-u.s. Gov't
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

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