Homecare

Contemporary social policy compels seniors who§require assistance with personal or household tasks§to obtain help from the community a term that most§often means women family members. Much is written§about caregiver burden but little research explores§the experiences of older women who are the recipients§of home care. Social policy with its reliance on§family as care givers is an inadequate response that§entraps and marginalizes women both as caregivers and§as care recipients. Care recipients engage in work§that involves resistance and raging against injustice§in their daily practice of negotiating homecare. Rage§as resistance is an appropriate response to the§experience of marginalization and silencing among§older women care recipients. Angry seniors is an§image that claims rage as a legitimate force; it is§an image of older women that calls for reconstruction§and research to uncover its legitimate power in the§daily lives of care recipients.