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KMID : 1159920080090010103
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Korean Journal of Women s Health
2008 Volume.9 No. 1 p.103 ~ p.129
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A Research on the Gendered Context of Older Women`s Dying and Dependency
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Lee Dong-Ok
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Abstract
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This research examines how older women"s care experience in their family influence on their dying by the literature research in the relation with and nation. Emphasis on the independency in senescence makes older women more disadvantageous than older men as breadwinner resources, for example medical expenses and living expenses under gender segregation. It is difficult to change the role of care in their family and women don"t want to be cared for on dying by their adult children because of inflicting a blow on them. When We try to explain the older women"s position as the care-receiver who had given care in the frame of conflict in caregiver and care-receiver, we don"t prepare the sufficient condition of giving-receiving care and we reflect the older women"s experience in full. But by care in their family, older women empathize with their dependent, are considerate of others" feelings, accept the dependence, endow inner power on dying and reveal the appearance of mature character. Older women understand care on dying in the context of relation and don"t describe as unproductivity. By had been training gender sensitiveness and accepted care as the course of life by care in family, older women finish their life in the relational context and interpret dying as the time of sympathy with others.
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KEYWORD
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dying, older women, care, dependency, relational context
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