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IWHHR - Thought Question, Week 8
Sep. 2nd, 2014 03:09 pmhttp://babusyatanya.blogspot.ca/2014/09/given-that-number-of-people-over-age-of.html
очень информативная статья Celia Sarduy Sánchez "Who Cares for the Caregivers?" (год издания не известен - судя по ссылкам, статья написана не раньше 2000 года): Куба, реформа здравоохранения, профессиональные медсестры которые отпрашиваются с работы чтобы ухаживать за больной бабушкой или родственником попадают под удар системы - им отказывают в повышении, по причине "отсутствия на работе", их лишают премий по той же причине, однако понятно что общество только выигрывает от их труда, по уходу на дому за больными родственниками, в государственных клиниках и домах по уходу за престарелыми бюджету дорого пришлось бы платить за такой уход (даже еще и худшего качества), а тут - и бесплатно больных обслуживают, да еще и на их зарплате сэкономить можно... в првышении отказать
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Given that the number of people over the age of 65 is going to increase hugely in the next few decades (with women being in the majority), share your thoughts about how women’s lives may be affected by these demographic changes both for better and for worse. Consider the situation in your own country. Please write three to five thoughtful paragraphs.
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Women’s experience of getting older is significant in many respects and its quality impacts both the women’s lives and the other people’s lives. These various impacts run from the global level, through the community and family levels up to the personal and interpersonal level. Extensive areas of social life depend on women’s labor, care service, emotional support, intellectual input, creation and maintenance of various social networks. Women’s input into societal wellbeing is indispensable.
Traditional patriarchal view of women’s aging insists that this process is a gradual loss of women’s qualities (“beauty”, reproductive functions), her capacities (to attract a male for trading her labor for his “economic support”), her value (social status of a “useful” contributor as a mother, nurse, nurturer). This view dehumanizes women and violates women’s human rights. These oppressive norms require women to serve the others’ needs while leaving her neither enough time nor even a chance to know her own needs as a human being – a creative one and capable to accomplish and achieve much more than the prescribed by the patriarchal normative order limited set of duties.
Every community and society should acknowledge the indispensable role of elderly women in maintaining networks of human relationships within various communities, while servicing various essential needs of the communities, and making the reproduction of cultural, recreational, healing, economic, educational practices happen within the communities. Without this work, without these efforts of elderly women, there would be no human relationships, and no sense of belonging, no feeling of home and feeling of being related to each other.
Elderly women’s wisdom and inner power makes them indispensable for the community, which benefits greatly from them practicing their talents and capacities. Elderly women may experience growing economic and social isolation, when the resources they could rely on are limited. In both developed and developing countries elderly women usually keep providing care work for their family and relatives: taking care for the grandchildren and orphans, helping their adult children who might suffer from economic decline of physical illnesses, supplementing for the lacks of education system and cultural development of the younger generations, maintaining the social networks and community care.
Cumulative statistics from different countries show that number of elderly women is growing in the world population. This means that both the elderly women empowerment and their dehumanization can have significant impact on the social conditions of many other people. So it is in everyone’s interests that the elderly women are treated with dignity and they are offered all possible opportunities to connect with the community via various cultural practices, educational, healing, recreational activities, sharing and acquiring expert knowledge and being a resource for providing historical evidences of the experiences of previous generations – thus establishing a sense of continuity and growing knowledge of a community about itself and the meaningful communication between people.
очень информативная статья Celia Sarduy Sánchez "Who Cares for the Caregivers?" (год издания не известен - судя по ссылкам, статья написана не раньше 2000 года): Куба, реформа здравоохранения, профессиональные медсестры которые отпрашиваются с работы чтобы ухаживать за больной бабушкой или родственником попадают под удар системы - им отказывают в повышении, по причине "отсутствия на работе", их лишают премий по той же причине, однако понятно что общество только выигрывает от их труда, по уходу на дому за больными родственниками, в государственных клиниках и домах по уходу за престарелыми бюджету дорого пришлось бы платить за такой уход (даже еще и худшего качества), а тут - и бесплатно больных обслуживают, да еще и на их зарплате сэкономить можно... в првышении отказать
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Given that the number of people over the age of 65 is going to increase hugely in the next few decades (with women being in the majority), share your thoughts about how women’s lives may be affected by these demographic changes both for better and for worse. Consider the situation in your own country. Please write three to five thoughtful paragraphs.
***
Women’s experience of getting older is significant in many respects and its quality impacts both the women’s lives and the other people’s lives. These various impacts run from the global level, through the community and family levels up to the personal and interpersonal level. Extensive areas of social life depend on women’s labor, care service, emotional support, intellectual input, creation and maintenance of various social networks. Women’s input into societal wellbeing is indispensable.
Traditional patriarchal view of women’s aging insists that this process is a gradual loss of women’s qualities (“beauty”, reproductive functions), her capacities (to attract a male for trading her labor for his “economic support”), her value (social status of a “useful” contributor as a mother, nurse, nurturer). This view dehumanizes women and violates women’s human rights. These oppressive norms require women to serve the others’ needs while leaving her neither enough time nor even a chance to know her own needs as a human being – a creative one and capable to accomplish and achieve much more than the prescribed by the patriarchal normative order limited set of duties.
Every community and society should acknowledge the indispensable role of elderly women in maintaining networks of human relationships within various communities, while servicing various essential needs of the communities, and making the reproduction of cultural, recreational, healing, economic, educational practices happen within the communities. Without this work, without these efforts of elderly women, there would be no human relationships, and no sense of belonging, no feeling of home and feeling of being related to each other.
Elderly women’s wisdom and inner power makes them indispensable for the community, which benefits greatly from them practicing their talents and capacities. Elderly women may experience growing economic and social isolation, when the resources they could rely on are limited. In both developed and developing countries elderly women usually keep providing care work for their family and relatives: taking care for the grandchildren and orphans, helping their adult children who might suffer from economic decline of physical illnesses, supplementing for the lacks of education system and cultural development of the younger generations, maintaining the social networks and community care.
Cumulative statistics from different countries show that number of elderly women is growing in the world population. This means that both the elderly women empowerment and their dehumanization can have significant impact on the social conditions of many other people. So it is in everyone’s interests that the elderly women are treated with dignity and they are offered all possible opportunities to connect with the community via various cultural practices, educational, healing, recreational activities, sharing and acquiring expert knowledge and being a resource for providing historical evidences of the experiences of previous generations – thus establishing a sense of continuity and growing knowledge of a community about itself and the meaningful communication between people.