Ortiz A, Simmons J, Hinton W L
University of Arizona, Tucson, USA.
Cult Med Psychiatry. 1999 Dec;23(4):477-500. doi: 10.1023/a:1005568019630.
In this essay, based on qualitative research with Latino and Irish-American caregivers of demented elders, we argue that spatially and culturally constituted definitions of personhood, the moral life, and justice shape perceptions of normative aging, the agency of the demented persons and their place in the community, the appropriate care of the aged and demented, as well as partially determine the concrete resources which will be available to elders and their families. We review how ties to homelands and neighborhood institutions act as mediators and shapers of anticipatory grief, caregiver burdens, and caregiver resources, serving as a buffer against exhaustion and despair for some families (primarily the Irish-American sample), and as an additional site of loss or stress for others (primarily the Latino sample).
在本文中，基于对患有痴呆症老年人的拉丁裔和爱尔兰裔美国照顾者的定性研究，我们认为，在空间和文化上构建的人格、道德生活和正义的定义，塑造了对正常衰老的认知、痴呆症患者的能动性及其在社区中的地位、对老年人和痴呆症患者的适当照料，并且部分决定了老年人及其家庭可获得的具体资源。我们审视了与家乡和邻里机构的联系如何充当预期性悲痛、照顾者负担和照顾者资源的调解者和塑造者，对一些家庭（主要是爱尔兰裔美国样本）而言，它们是抵御疲惫和绝望的缓冲器，而对另一些家庭（主要是拉丁裔样本）而言，则是额外的损失或压力源。
