Targeting of social transfers: Are India’s poor older people left behind?

2019 ◽  
Vol 115 ◽  
pp. 46-63 ◽  
Author(s):  
Viola Asri
Keyword(s):  
Older People ◽  
Left Behind ◽  
Social Transfers

Linkages between migration and the care of frail older people: observations from Greece, Ghana and The Netherlands

2004 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 431-450 ◽  
Author(s):  
SJAAK VAN DER GEEST ◽  
ANKE MUL ◽  
HANS VERMEULEN
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Older People ◽  
Old Age ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Low Income Countries ◽  
Full Time ◽  
Private Care ◽  
Left Behind ◽  
And Migration

There are at least four ways in which old age and migration cross each other's paths. First of all, there are people who migrated for economic reasons, usually at a relatively young age, and who have grown old in a foreign country. Secondly, there are older people who migrate when (or because) they are old: in Europe, they are mostly from the affluent northern countries and travel southward. Thirdly, there is increasing employment of, and demand for, immigrant workers in old-age institutions in the northern countries. Finally, there is the out-migration of young people, mainly from rural areas, that results in older people being left behind without children to look after them. In all these cases, migration has a profound effect on the wellbeing and care of older people. The authors of this article explore a fifth linkage between migration and old age, by focusing on the (mainly illegal) immigrants who take on roles as private carers and, in effect, replace the children who have emigrated. Two cases, from Greece and Ghana, are presented and viewed in the two countries' political, cultural and economic contexts, and are then compared to conditions in The Netherlands. In both cases, involving a ‘stranger’ in the care of an older parent is regarded as a good and respectable solution to the problem of absent children and grandchildren: it follows rules of reciprocity and normally provides a good quality of care. Ironically, hiring full-time private care for older people is feasible in low-income countries but a rare luxury in high-income societies.

scholarly journals Orphan pensioners and migrating grandparents: the impact of mass migration on older people in rural Albania

2006 ◽  
Vol 26 (5) ◽  
pp. 783-816 ◽  
Author(s):  
RUSSELL KING ◽  
JULIE VULLNETARI
Keyword(s):  
Older People ◽  
Communist Regime ◽  
Paid Work ◽  
Left Behind ◽  
Mass Migration ◽  
Working Age ◽  
Massive Scale ◽  
Socially Isolated ◽  
Middle Generation ◽  
The Impact

Since 1990, Albania has witnessed rural out-migration on a massive scale, both to other countries, chiefly Italy and Greece, and internally to Tirana and other major towns. The scale of this migration has disrupted the multi-generational rural social and kinship systems that, before 1990, displayed strong and coherent family bonds, and simultaneously accommodated paternalistic state directives and were supported by welfare provision for all members of the population. The sudden political, social and rural dislocations that followed the end of the communist regime have made older people particularly vulnerable: many have been left behind by their emigrant children, creating the phenomenon of socially-isolated ‘elderly orphans’. While the migrants' remittances cushion this social isolation, the loss of children and grandchildren through emigration has undermined older people's self-respect and raison d'être in Albanian family life. This paper, based on fieldwork and interviews in regions of heavy out-migration in northern and southern Albania, examines the human impact of emigration on the older people who have been left behind as well as their coping mechanisms, one being to follow their children abroad to care for the grandchildren, enabling the ‘middle generation’, working-age parents both to engage in paid work.

A Close Look at No Child Left Behind

ASHA Leader ◽  
2004 ◽  
Vol 9 (17) ◽  
pp. 1-29
Author(s):  
Susan Boswell
Keyword(s):  
No Child Left Behind ◽  
Left Behind

The Care of Older People

1952 ◽  
Vol 36 (2) ◽  
pp. 569-583 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. Ian Macdonald
Keyword(s):  
Older People

Self and Meaning in the Lives of Older People

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter G. Coleman ◽  
Christine Ivani-Chalian ◽  
Maureen Robinson
Keyword(s):  
Older People
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