Aging in an Aging Society - Critical Reflections - Iva Apostolova
8. Caring Across Borders: Lessons from Transnational Families
Aging in an Aging Society - Critical Reflections - Iva Apostolova
Marta Rodríguez-Galán [+]
St. John Fisher College
Marta Rodríguez-Galán is associate professor of Sociology at St. John Fisher College, where she also directs the Gerontology program. For over a decade now, she has been conducting research on aging and health with a particular focus on Hispanic/Latino communities in the U.S. She is currently researching civic engagement among low-income older Latinos and the experiences of Latina grandmothers and great-grandmothers raising grandchildren.
Description
“Caring across Borders: Lessons from Transnational Families” by Marta Rodriguez-Galán shares the story of the author’s mother’s rapid decline due to an early onset of Alzheimer’s. Moving from her personal story of caring for her mother from a distance, Rodriguez-Galán casts a wider net and reviews the policies, among which immigration policies, that affect transnational families when it comes to caring for aging family members.