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This Seed Will Bear No Fruit: Older People's Perception About Old People's Home in Selected Local Government Areas in Osun State of South-Western Nigeria

This Seed Will Bear No Fruit: Older People's Perception About Old People's Home in Selected Local Government Areas in Osun State of South-Western Nigeria

Friday A. Eboiyehi
Copyright: © 2019 |Pages: 22
ISBN13: 9781522595311|ISBN10: 1522595317|EISBN13: 9781522595328
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-9531-1.ch019
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Eboiyehi, Friday A. "This Seed Will Bear No Fruit: Older People's Perception About Old People's Home in Selected Local Government Areas in Osun State of South-Western Nigeria." Handbook of Research on Transdisciplinary Knowledge Generation, edited by Viktor Wang, IGI Global, 2019, pp. 262-283. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-9531-1.ch019

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Eboiyehi, F. A. (2019). This Seed Will Bear No Fruit: Older People's Perception About Old People's Home in Selected Local Government Areas in Osun State of South-Western Nigeria. In V. Wang (Ed.), Handbook of Research on Transdisciplinary Knowledge Generation (pp. 262-283). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-9531-1.ch019

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Eboiyehi, Friday A. "This Seed Will Bear No Fruit: Older People's Perception About Old People's Home in Selected Local Government Areas in Osun State of South-Western Nigeria." In Handbook of Research on Transdisciplinary Knowledge Generation, edited by Viktor Wang, 262-283. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2019. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-9531-1.ch019

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Abstract

The continuous increase in the number of older people and the gradual erosion of the extended family system which used to cater to them are alarming. While older people in much of the developed countries have embraced old people's homes as an alternative, the same cannot be said of older people in Nigeria who still believed that it is the duty of the family to accommodate them. The chapter examined the perception of older people about living in old people's home in some selected local government areas in Osun State, Nigeria. The study showed that their perception about living in old people's home was poor as many of them still held on to the belief that it was the responsibility of their family members to house them as it was done in the olden days. Although a few of the interviewees (particularly those who are exposed to what is obtained in the Western world and those with some level of education) had accepted the idea, many preferred to live with their family rather than being dumped in “an isolated environment,” where they would not have access to their family members. Pragmatic policy options aimed at addressing this emerging social problem were highlighted.

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