"We clean our houses, prepare for weddings and go to funerals": Daily lives of elderly Africans in Majaneng, South Africa

Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 323-337

  Bohman, Doris M ^a   Vasuthevan, Sharon ^c   Van Wyk, Neltjie C ^c   Ekman, Sirkka Liisa ^b  

^a BLEKINGE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Activities of daily life; Changing society; Elderly; Ethnography; Keeping normality; South Africa

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; FAMILY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; LEISURE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTHUMOUS CARE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SAFETY; SOUTH AFRICA;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; AGED; ANTHROPOLOGY, CULTURAL; FAMILY; FEMALE; FUNERAL RITES; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; HUMANS; LEISURE ACTIVITIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SAFETY; SOUTH AFRICA;

EID: 35148873019     PISSN: 01693816     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10823-007-9040-8     Document Type: Article

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