ReviewGlobal public health2015
Gender, ageing and carework in East and Southern Africa: A review.
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58 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Aging and HIV-Related Caregiving in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Social Ecological Approach.The Gerontologist · 2019Pooled it
- Comparison of Antiretroviral Therapy Adherence Among HIV-Infected Older Adults with Younger Adults in Africa: Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.AIDS and behavior · 2019Pooled it
- From "4Rs and 2Ss" to "Amaka Amasanyufu" (Happy Families): Adapting a U.S.-based Evidence-Based Intervention to the Uganda Context.Family process · 2020Trial
- Health Care Access Barriers Among Reproductive-Age Women in East Africa: Development and Validation of Machine Learning Prediction Models Using DHS Data.JMIR medical informatics · 2026Article
- Family and community care for older persons with Parkinson's disease in Kenya: a qualitative, ethnographic study.BMC geriatrics · 2026Article
- The role of household composition in social isolation and anxiety: evidence from adults in South Africa during the COVID-19 pandemic.The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences · 2026Article
- Extending Healthy Ageing Narratives in Sub-Saharan Africa: Expert Viewpoint.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Variation in Health Status Reports: Triangulating Mixed Methods Data to Assess the Health and Wellbeing of Primary Caregivers to Older Rural South Africans.Journal of cross-cultural gerontology · 2025Article
- Kin to strain: longitudinal impacts of family size on mental health among aging South Africans.The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences · 2025Article
- Caregiving dynamics and labor market outcomes of unorganized caregivers of older adults in Ghana.Journal of health, population, and nutrition · 2025Article
- The Strength of Long-Distance Ties for Aging Healthy With HIV: The Case of Rural South Africa.The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences · 2025Article
- Distribution of Informal Caregiving for Older Adults Living With or At Risk of Cognitive Decline Within and Beyond Family in Rural South Africa.The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences · 2025Article
- The social burden of antimicrobial resistance: what is it, how can we measure it, and why does it matter?JAC-antimicrobial resistance · 2025Review
- HIV and Viremia Prevalence in Nonmigrating Members of Migrant Households in Southern Uganda: A Cross-Sectional Population-Based Study.Journal of acquired immune deficiency syndromes (1999) · 2025Article
- Overlapping caregiving demands and their association with poor subjective health and wellbeing and food insecurity among older rural South Africans.PLOS global public health · 2025Article
- Lived experiences of informal caregivers of adolescents with bipolar disorder at Masaka regional referral hospital.PLOS mental health · 2025Article
- "I am adhering to HIV treatment so that I can live to support her": A qualitative study of upward intergenerational support in South Africa.Journal of global health · 2024Article
- HIV, Social Networks, and Loneliness among Older Adults in Uganda.AIDS and behavior · 2024Article
- Understanding Household Dynamics From the Ground Up: A Longitudinal Study From a Rural South African Setting.Demography · 2024Article
- Is Multidimensional Poverty Associated to Dementia Risk? The Case of Older Adults in Pakistan.Innovation in aging · 2024Article
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Abstract
An estimated 58 million persons aged 60-plus live in sub-Saharan Africa; by 2050 that number will rise sharply to 215 million. Older Africans traditionally get care in their old age from the middle generation. But in East and Southern Africa, HIV has hollowed out that generation, leaving many older persons to provide care for their children's children without someone to care for him or herself in old age. Simultaneously, the burden of disease among older persons is changing in this region. The result is a growing care deficit. This article examines the existing literature on care for and by older persons in this region, highlighting understudied aspects of older persons' experiences of ageing and care--including the positive impacts of carework, variation in the region and the role of resilience and pensions. We advance a conceptual framework of gendered identities--for both men and women--and intergenerational social exchange to help focus and understand the complex interdependent relationships around carework, which are paramount in addressing the needs of older persons in the current care deficit in this region, and the Global South more generally.
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