EUROPEAN TRENDS REGARDING THE ELDERING POPULATION AND THE INCREASING NEED FOR CARE WORK

Livia Pogan
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Livia Pogan: ”Lucian Blaga” University of Sibiu, Sibiu, Romania

Sociology and Social Work Review, 2019, vol. 3, issue 2, 49-56

Abstract: Care is an activity that has always defined humans` interactions and consists of a variety of forms and manifestations, being differently classified, according to various criteria across time. The recent years brought care work to the public agenda while feminist scholars, and not only them, argue its importance in the scientific arena. The demographic, technological, economic and social shifts of the last decades, such as population aging, migration, changes in the family structure and functioning, women`s enrolment in paid work, outside the house, for example, made the need for care services one of the acute problems of the modern, western welfare states. In the following lines we will draw the general context regarding these transformations, emphasizing their connections with the increasing need for care work, outline the main theoretical approaches of care and we will also analyze the latest European data concerning the above mentioned issues, together with research perspectives that aim to address them.

Keywords: care work values; aging; migration; family. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J12 J13 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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