Population ageing is posing increasingly similar challenges to the societies on the two shores of the Mediterranean, where family remains the main welfare agency. The socio-demographic and ethnographic evidence surveyed in this article shows that while old forms of relatedness like coresidence in extended families still play a role, they are being complemented by coping strategies in which a familistic ideology favours the “extension” of families through new forms of relatedness ranging from close residential proximity between children and parents to live-in home care where domesticity may catalyze kinning processes between elders and their caregivers.

Families and the Elderly along the Shores of the Mediterranean: Old and New Forms of Relatedness

Sacchi Paola;Viazzo Pier Paolo
2018-01-01

Abstract

Population ageing is posing increasingly similar challenges to the societies on the two shores of the Mediterranean, where family remains the main welfare agency. The socio-demographic and ethnographic evidence surveyed in this article shows that while old forms of relatedness like coresidence in extended families still play a role, they are being complemented by coping strategies in which a familistic ideology favours the “extension” of families through new forms of relatedness ranging from close residential proximity between children and parents to live-in home care where domesticity may catalyze kinning processes between elders and their caregivers.
2018
18
3 (N. 171)
427
438
https://www.cairn.info/revue-ethnologie-francaise-2018-3-page-427.htm
Ageing, Mediterranean, Co-residence, Live-in homecare, Relatedness
Sacchi Paola; Viazzo Pier Paolo
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