A dynamic set of affective-emotional experiences traveled during the process of providing care.
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Informal Cares and Caregivers in Rural Elderly: Emotional Costs in Public Health Policies
Nuria María García Perales (Universidad de Extremadura, Spain), Borja Rivero Jiménez (Universidad de Extremadura, Spain), David Conde Caballero (Universidad de Extremadura, Spain), Beatriz Muñoz González (Universidad de Extremadura, Spain), and Lorenzo Mariano Juarez (Universidad de Extremadura, Spain)
Copyright: © 2020
|Pages: 14
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-9818-3.ch019
Abstract
The aging population means that health systems rely on informal carers to meet the physical, psychological, and emotional needs of older people. In this context, it is particularly important to know the perceived quality of life of informal carers. Health studies highlight the close relationship between care work and the carer's objective health. Through a qualitative ethnographic methodology, by means of open interviews with carers from rural areas of Extremadura (Spain), this study deepens the knowledge of the emotional costs to which the figure of the informal carer is subjected. The authors approach the social-emotional dimension in places where it is not always possible for public health policies to be fully developed. In this situation, moreover, some moral characteristics of these environments take on special importance.