Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- Lists of photos, figures and tables
- Notes on contributors
- Series preface
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: Spaces and practices of care for older people in Sub-Saharan Africa
- one Will families in Ghana continue to care for older people? Logic and contradiction in policy
- two Caring for people ‘without’ value: movement, reciprocity and respect in Kinshasa’s retirement homes
- three Older people providing care for older people in Tanzania: against conventions – but accepted
- four Place matters: the home as a key site of old-age care in coastal Tanzania
- five Care and identity in rural Malawi
- six Making sense of neglect in northwest Tanzania
- seven Negotiating care for older people in South Africa: between the ideal and the pragmatics
- Afterword: Discourses of care for older people in Sub-Saharan Africa: towards conceptual development
- Index
Notes on contributors
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 April 2022
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- Lists of photos, figures and tables
- Notes on contributors
- Series preface
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: Spaces and practices of care for older people in Sub-Saharan Africa
- one Will families in Ghana continue to care for older people? Logic and contradiction in policy
- two Caring for people ‘without’ value: movement, reciprocity and respect in Kinshasa’s retirement homes
- three Older people providing care for older people in Tanzania: against conventions – but accepted
- four Place matters: the home as a key site of old-age care in coastal Tanzania
- five Care and identity in rural Malawi
- six Making sense of neglect in northwest Tanzania
- seven Negotiating care for older people in South Africa: between the ideal and the pragmatics
- Afterword: Discourses of care for older people in Sub-Saharan Africa: towards conceptual development
- Index
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- Ageing in Sub-Saharan AfricaSpaces and Practices of Care, pp. vii - viiiPublisher: Bristol University PressPrint publication year: 2016