Long term care is family care in Southern Africa: What are the costs?

GOLTC Care and Social Protection in Southern Africa Interest Group webinar

Date: 27th September 2024

Time: 13:00-14:30 BST

This seminar explores the different dimensions of the costs of family care, i.e. the ways that access to resources makes care possible but also the ways in which it constrains or shapes the care experience, the lives of the different actors involved and overall wellbeing. As the default long term care practice across the region, the seminar will discuss the way the costs of care shape the lives of caregivers, care receivers, families and wider sets of social relations. In considering and reviewing the resources and care practices that older persons and families engage in, the seminar will help shed some light on the consequences and challenges of family caregiving of older persons.

• Introduction to the Global Observatory of Long-Term Care and welcome (Adelina Comas-Herrera, Care Policy and Evaluation Centre, LSE, UK).
• Introduction to the Care and Social Protection in Southern Africa, Professor Elena Moore, The Family caregiving Programme, University of Cape Town
• Presentations:
  • Mutuality, relatedness, and the pragmatics of home-based care in rural South Africa, Professor Lenore Manderson, University of The Witwatersrand
  • The Return of the Daughter: Gendered Eldercare in Ghana, Professor Cati Coe, Canada Research Chair in Migration and Care, Carleton University
  • The cost of care and rurality in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa: “Kusinda nongathwele”, Doctor Nonzuzo Mbokazi, The University of Cape Town
• Discussion led by Professor Elena Moore, The Family caregiving Programme, University of Cape Town.