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From Dis-Empowerment to Empowerment: New Thoughts on Elderly Care for Bereaved Women

CHEN Wenhua1,2   

  1. 1. School of Politics and Law,Hanshan Normal University, Chaozhou, Guangdong, 521041, China;
    2. Department of Social Work, Tunghai University, Taichung, Taiwan, 40704, China
  • Received:2020-05-13 Online:2021-03-15 Published:2021-03-29

Abstract: Elderly Care is the most realistic dilemma faced by groups who have lost their only child (“shidu”). In the unique social context of China, such problem of bereaved women deserves special attention. As the current elderly care plan based on the pathological concept cannot effectively address this problem, a new idea emerges from the perspective of empowerment that integrates individual needs with macro-structure changes. The study finds that the dis-empowerment of bereaved old women is caused by the lack of life resources and insufficient efficiency on the individual level, the negative interaction and self-exclusion for social contactat the interpersonal level, the policy defects and structural oppression on the institutional level.In order to strengthen the elderly care for bereaved women, efforts should be made to inspire their sense of competence, strengthen education of the public and construction of socialized pension mode, wipe out discrimination, improve the institutional construction that features equality and justice. These are important paths for the transformation of elderly care from dis-empowerment to empowerment.

Key words: empowerment, dis-empowerment, elderly women bereft of their children, elderly care

CLC Number: 

  • C916
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