Intergenerational ambivalence among families with a migrant background caring for older relatives
Introduction: Europe's population is aging and becoming more ethnically diverse due to migration. The growing number of aging migrants has raised concerns about their future eldercare arrangements and their implications for both families and formal care services. Many older non-European migrant...
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| description | Introduction: Europe's population is aging and becoming more ethnically diverse due to migration. The growing number of aging migrants has raised concerns about their future eldercare arrangements and their implications for both families and formal care services. Many older non-European migrants prefer family care over formal, long-term care facilities. Objective: The objective of this study is to explore the family caregiving arrangements for older Pakistani migrants from the Ahmadiyya community in Norway. Methods: This exploratory qualitative study recruited 19 women between 25 and 62 years of age who were family caregivers for older adults. Semi-structured individual (18) and group interviews (2) were conducted in Urdu and English. Findings: Our analysis reveals four main themes: the need to share caring responsibilities with family, balancing personal relations in managing care, lack of privacy while caregiving, and feelings of inadequacy. Conclusion: While rotational care for older family members offers benefits such as the sharing of responsibilities and more privacy, reliance solely on family care arrangements led to greater ambivalence among family caregivers and provoked doubts about the ability to continue caring for older relatives in the future. Our findings highlight the urgent need to establish modes of collaboration with formal care systems to ensure the support and well-being of both older adults and their family caregivers. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-5d7bee1b5d8e4beaaa59a5b440dda6ec2025-08-20T02:20:34ZengElsevierJournal of Migration and Health2666-62352024-01-011010024410.1016/j.jmh.2024.100244Intergenerational ambivalence among families with a migrant background caring for older relativesSunita Shrestha0Alistair Hunter1Jonas Debesay2Sanjana Arora3Department of Nursing and Health Promotion, Faculty of Health Sciences, Oslo Metropolitan University, Norway; Corresponding author.School of Social and Environmental Sustainability, University of Glasgow, Dumfries, UKDepartment of Nursing and Health Promotion, Faculty of Health Sciences, Oslo Metropolitan University, NorwayCentre for Intercultural Communication, VID Specialized University, Stavanger, NorwayIntroduction: Europe's population is aging and becoming more ethnically diverse due to migration. The growing number of aging migrants has raised concerns about their future eldercare arrangements and their implications for both families and formal care services. Many older non-European migrants prefer family care over formal, long-term care facilities. Objective: The objective of this study is to explore the family caregiving arrangements for older Pakistani migrants from the Ahmadiyya community in Norway. Methods: This exploratory qualitative study recruited 19 women between 25 and 62 years of age who were family caregivers for older adults. Semi-structured individual (18) and group interviews (2) were conducted in Urdu and English. Findings: Our analysis reveals four main themes: the need to share caring responsibilities with family, balancing personal relations in managing care, lack of privacy while caregiving, and feelings of inadequacy. Conclusion: While rotational care for older family members offers benefits such as the sharing of responsibilities and more privacy, reliance solely on family care arrangements led to greater ambivalence among family caregivers and provoked doubts about the ability to continue caring for older relatives in the future. Our findings highlight the urgent need to establish modes of collaboration with formal care systems to ensure the support and well-being of both older adults and their family caregivers.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666623524000333Family caregiverMigrantAgingRotational carePrivacyIntergenerational ambivalence |
| spellingShingle | Sunita Shrestha Alistair Hunter Jonas Debesay Sanjana Arora Intergenerational ambivalence among families with a migrant background caring for older relatives Journal of Migration and Health Family caregiver Migrant Aging Rotational care Privacy Intergenerational ambivalence |
| title | Intergenerational ambivalence among families with a migrant background caring for older relatives |
| title_full | Intergenerational ambivalence among families with a migrant background caring for older relatives |
| title_fullStr | Intergenerational ambivalence among families with a migrant background caring for older relatives |
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| title_short | Intergenerational ambivalence among families with a migrant background caring for older relatives |
| title_sort | intergenerational ambivalence among families with a migrant background caring for older relatives |
| topic | Family caregiver Migrant Aging Rotational care Privacy Intergenerational ambivalence |
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