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Navigating the choppy waters to Nirvana: A critical reflective account of caring for ageing parents in the fourth age
Ageing & Society ( IF 3.718 ) Pub Date : 2021-02-19 , DOI: 10.1017/s0144686x20001956
Alison McInnes

This article revisits a paper and from an autoethnographic/critical reflective biographical approach re-examines seven cultural notions or myths, which may encourage ageism. It is framed within my experiential knowledge of caring for my ageing parents, with the tensions and challenges around problematising the value of expertise based on experience, communication, grief, and autonomy and freedom versus safety. The commentary emphasises that by analysing the impact of our personal life experiences, we can start to understand both the intended and unintended consequences of policy and practice affecting those in the fourth age. As a social work educator, I wanted to reflect upon how my tacit experiential knowledge, if made explicit, could impact upon my own and others’ learning. The recent death of my father has allowed for a period of reflection on my own caring and indeed my professional social work experience, knowledge, skills and practice. It is argued that the ageing process is unequal as class and socio-economic factors, i.e. geography, age, gender, religion and ethnicity, all play parts in determining how someone ages, and indeed upon the care an individual older person receives. A fuller understanding of negotiating the role of one stakeholder, that of a family carer in the ageing process, is elicited in this paper.



中文翻译:

在波涛汹涌的海水中航行至极乐世界:关照四岁老父母的重要反思

本文重新审视了一篇论文,并从一种人种志/批判性反思传记方法重新审视了可能鼓舞年龄歧视的七个文化观念或神话。它以我的经验丰富的框架为基础,该知识涉及我对年迈的父母的照顾,以及围绕经验,沟通,悲伤,自主和自由安全。评论强调,通过分析个人生活经历的影响,我们可以开始理解影响第四年龄段的政策和实践的预期和非预期结果。作为一名社会工作教育者,我想反思一下我的默会性经验知识(如果被阐明)将如何影响我自己和他人的学习。我父亲最近的去世使我对自己的关心以及我的专业社会工作经验,知识,技能和实践有了一定的反思。有人认为,衰老过程在阶级和社会经济因素上是不平等的,地理,年龄,性别,宗教和种族,都在决定某人的年龄以及实际上是由一个老年人所接受的照料中起着重要作用。本文引发了对谈判一个利益相关者,一个家庭照料者在老龄化过程中的角色的更全面的了解。

更新日期:2021-02-19
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