The meanings of health and illness as well as people's beliefs about the required response
to illness vary widely according to time and place and represents the culture and society in …

Compromised health negatively impacts older persons' ability to participate in expected
social roles. Researchers have published little empirical work, however, to explore these …

South Africa, like other sub-Saharan African countries, is in the midst of the AIDS epidemic.
Older women, here defined as aged 60 years and older, while at lower risk of infection than …

Aim: This paper examines financial, emotional, and physical responsibilities elderly women
are being asked to take on due to the incapacity of their adult children to care for the next …

In many sub-Saharan African communities, caring for vulnerable children in the era of
HIV/AIDS appears to be creating deep financial, physical and psychological strains for care …

Older adults have been largely overlooked in community studies of HIV in highly endemic
African countries. In our rural study site in Mpumalanga Province, South Africa, HIV …

This ethnographic study aims to identify and describe how a group of elderly African people
in South Africa experience their daily life and related concerns and interests. Data were …

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 …

This paper describes the challenges faced by elderly persons (50 years and above) in
Uganda, as parents and/or relatives of persons infected by HIV and as caregivers of the …

This study explored how women's and men's gendered experiences from childhood to old
age have shaped their vulnerability in relation to HIV both in terms of their individual risk of …