Women's Experiences of Ageing: Social Participation of Grandmothers Providing Daycare

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Considering the demographic changes in Turkey, it has become inevitable to address the social dimension of aging. This study aims to show the effect of daycare provided to their grandchildren by aging women on their social participation. The concept of social participation is examined under three headings: community life, interpersonal relations, and leisure time activities. This study, conducted in light of Feminist Standpoint Theory, will show the effect of unpaid care work on social participation, which is very important in the aging process, physically, psychologically, and socially, by putting women at the center. In this study, parallel to the course of interviews with grandmothers, (i) demographic information; (ii) daily life practices in private and public spaces; (iii) comparative perceptions and experiences of child and grandchild care; (iv) social participation in the context of community life, interpersonal relations and leisure activities, and (v) the impact of the pandemic will be examined with descriptive analysis. Besides all these, social policies regarding childcare and aging in Turkey will also be examined. While the post-2002 social policies in Turkey emphasize the cooperation of the family in childcare, the measures taken for the elderly do not seem to be sufficient yet for their social participation. Therefore, the socio-political background in the context of care and aging gives way to the social realities that are problematized in this study. Thus, the unpaid care work provided by grandmothers for mothers to employ greatly shapes the community life, interpersonal relationships, and leisure activities of grandmothers during their 'workdays'.

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unpaid care work, grandmothers, ageing, social participation

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B. Demirkol, “Women’s Experiences of Ageing: Social Participation of Grandmothers Providing Daycare,” M.S. - Master of Science, Middle East Technical University, 2022.