Keeping the Elderly Alive: Global Entanglements and Embodied Practices in Long-Term Care in Southeast Italy
This article explores the success of the “migrant in the family” model of care for the elderly in southeast Italy and the mechanisms that bond the caregivers and their patients in a mutual dependency. I describe this model as a meeting place between endurance and vulnerability, and between the fragi...
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| Language: | English |
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University Library System, University of Pittsburgh
2019-02-01
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| Series: | Anthropology & Aging |
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| Online Access: | https://anthro-age.pitt.edu/ojs/index.php/anthro-age/article/view/202 |