"We clean our houses, prepare for weddings and go to funerals" : daily lives of elderly Africans in Majaneng, South Africa
| dc.contributor.author | Bohman, Doris M. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Vasuthevan, Sharon | |
| dc.contributor.author | Van Wyk, Neltjie C. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Ekman, Sirkka-Liisa | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2008-01-17T11:53:03Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2008-01-17T11:53:03Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2007-12 | |
| dc.description.abstract | This ethnographic study aims to identify and describe how a group of elderly African people in South Africa experience their daily life and related concerns and interests. Data were collected through group interviews involving 16 elderly persons and complementary field observations. The data were analysed using a qualitative content analysis. From the analysis following sub-themes emerged: 1. Lack of basic resources; 2. Routines in daily life; 3. Experience of unsafe conditions; 4. “The disease”HIV/AIDS. The results have been discussed according to the following themes: keeping normality and changing society. The study illuminates the varied experiences in daily life, including lack of basic resources, experience of unsafe conditions, and the HIV/AIDS pandemic and its consequences for the elderly as contributors to the extended family. | en |
| dc.description.sponsorship | The research and work on this manuscript was supported by grants from the Nordic Africa Institute, Uppsala, Sweden. The authors gratefully acknowledge the assistance of Dorricha Peu, lecturer at the University of Pretoria, and of Alan Crozier for revising the English. | en |
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| dc.identifier.citation | Bohman, DM, Vasuthevan, S, Van Wyk, NC & Ekman, S-L 2007, '"We clean our houses, prepare for weddings and go to funerals" : daily lives of elderly Africans in Majaneng, South Africa', Journal of Cross Cultural Gerontology, vol. 22, no.4, pp. 323-337. [http://www.springerlink.com/content/102929] | en |
| dc.identifier.issn | 1573-0719 | |
| dc.identifier.other | 10.1007/s10823-007-9040-8 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/4232 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en |
| dc.publisher | Springer | en |
| dc.rights | Springer. The original publication is available at www.springerlink.com | en |
| dc.subject | Activities of daily life | en |
| dc.subject | Changing society | en |
| dc.subject | Ethnography | en |
| dc.subject | Keeping normality | en |
| dc.subject | South Africa | en |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Ethnology -- South Africa | |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Interpersonal relations and culture -- South Africa | |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Social gerontology -- South Africa | |
| dc.title | "We clean our houses, prepare for weddings and go to funerals" : daily lives of elderly Africans in Majaneng, South Africa | en |
| dc.type | Postprint Article | en |