Flores Yvette G, Hinton Ladson, Barker Judith C, Franz Carol E, Velasquez Alexandra
Chicana/o Studies Program, University of California, Davis, Davis, California 95616, USA.
Health Care Women Int. 2009 Dec;30(12):1055-72. doi: 10.1080/07399330903141252.
Caregiving for elderly relatives with dementia is described as a stressful and challenging obligation that disproportionately befalls women in families. Studies of Latina caregivers tend to focus on how the cultural value of familism shapes caregiving expectations and experiences. However, these studies tend not to distinguish between familism as ideology and familism as practice to evaluate how caregiving may or may not conform to prescribed cultural scripts nor to examine the ethics of care utilized by family caregivers. Through a case study of a second-generation daughter, we explore the nuances of an ethics of care that constitute her caregiving experiences and the tensions generated by efforts to respect divergent cultural mandates.
照顾患有痴呆症的老年亲属被描述为一项压力巨大且具有挑战性的责任，这种责任在家庭中不成比例地落在女性身上。对拉丁裔照顾者的研究往往侧重于家庭主义的文化价值观如何塑造照顾期望和经历。然而，这些研究往往没有区分作为意识形态的家庭主义和作为实践的家庭主义，以评估照顾行为可能如何或可能不符合规定的文化脚本，也没有审视家庭照顾者所采用的照顾伦理。通过对一位第二代女儿的案例研究，我们探讨了构成她照顾经历的照顾伦理的细微差别，以及尊重不同文化要求所产生的紧张关系。
