Negotiating filial care in transitions:an ethnographic study of family involvement in China’s nursing homes  

作　　者：Xinyue Wu 

机构地区：[1]School of Humanities,Southeast University,No.2 Dongnandaxue Road,Nanjing,China

出　　处：《The Journal of Chinese Sociology》2023年第1期158-175,共18页中国社会学杂志（英文）

基　　金：supported by the National Social Science Fund of China(No.21CSH027).

摘　　要：Based on ethnographic research conducted in two nursing homes in China, this article examines how institutional eldercare reshapes the expectations and practices of filial piety. It finds that families accept institutional care as a solution to the elderly care defi-cit. They expect a new division of care between labor and love, assigned to paid care workers and family members, respectively. This ideal of care division is rooted in the “intimate turn” in Chinese family life. Nevertheless, many family members go beyond this care division and remain deeply involved in nursing homes. On the one hand, adult children take on the responsibility to manage surrogate caretakers to improve the qual-ity of care. On the other hand, they continue to provide personal care and companion-ship. Sharing family time is made the highest priority, especially in the face of impend-ing death. This study goes beyond the binary division between commercial care and family care and sheds light on the transformation of filial piety in the commodification of eldercare in contemporary China.

关 键 词：AGING ELDERCARE Filial piety Institutional care Family involvement 

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