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Aging and Generations in Cuba

Unravelling the Care Crisis
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Based on a twelve-year ethnographic study in Havana and rural areas, this book examines the current crisis of eldercare in Cuba, underpinned by advanced demographic aging. With great humanity and a lively narrative, Destremau-Zeitz shows how intergenerational households enact interdependency and solidarity in response to the many complexities of daily life and a protracted economic crisis. Beyond the multidimensional crisis of care, the author argues that Cuba is facing a crisis of social reproduction that appears specific to (ex)socialist countries but holds lessons for many of the world's developed nations as well.
Blandine Destremau-Zeitz is Director of Research at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS).
Chapter 1 Living and Cohabitating: Practical Interdependence Chapter 2 Generations and Revolution: "Here, There Is No Life" Chapter 3 Consumption and Deprivation: Time and Money Chapter 4 The Elderly's Care Work: Overburdened Grandparents Chapter 5 Aging Well: The Political Ethics of Self-Care on Trial Chapter 6 Aging in the Family: From Love to Exhaustion Chapter 7 Who's Going to Take Care of Me? The Anguish of Aging Alone
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