The paper is a product of the SOCCARE project, a comparative research financed in EU Framework Program 5 and based on in-depth interviews conducted in five European countries in four types of families under stress: a package was dedicated to families with elderly dependants and an heavy care burden. The paper investigates by the methodology of case-matching the conditions of sandwich generation caregivers which is under transformation in Southern European countries due to a changing equilibrium among generations and to a stretching of life course phases. The result seems to be a new type of vulnerable family with a very heavy double front of care
Caregiving in Transition in Southern Europe: neither Complete Altruists nor Free-Riders / R.Trifiletti; S.Simoni. - STAMPA. - (2005), pp. 118-144.
Caregiving in Transition in Southern Europe: neither Complete Altruists nor Free-Riders.
TRIFILETTI, ROSSANA;
2005
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The paper is a product of the SOCCARE project, a comparative research financed in EU Framework Program 5 and based on in-depth interviews conducted in five European countries in four types of families under stress: a package was dedicated to families with elderly dependants and an heavy care burden. The paper investigates by the methodology of case-matching the conditions of sandwich generation caregivers which is under transformation in Southern European countries due to a changing equilibrium among generations and to a stretching of life course phases. The result seems to be a new type of vulnerable family with a very heavy double front of careFile | Dimensione | Formato | |
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