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Title: When the day comes Rating: 3.1 out of 4 Reference: Director, Sharon McGowan; producer, Chantal
Bowen. Library of Congress subjects: Aged--Care—Canada Caregivers—Canada Aged women--Health and hygiene--Canada Sociology subjects: Aging & gerontology The body Ethnographic methods Health & medicine Identity Privatisation & restructuring Women & the family Women & work Work in North America and Europe Reviews and Numerical Ratings 3 This video presents perspectives on caregiving for the frail & frail elderly, primarily through first person narratives. This video demonstrates the gendered nature of care-giving, and demonstrates the lack of support, loss of income, loss of health, & other issues faced by care-givers. The video is emotionally powerful, and exposes a wide variety of issues. While upper middle class persons dominate, there is some diversity of race & kinship tie included. My concern about this video is that it does not expose the political/economic nature of care-giving, and its presentation of a caregiver's support group might be interpreted by undergrads as the "magic bullet" to solve this social issue. Use with care. Susan Braedley 3 Women, work & family is currently a fairly hot topic. Women’s work issues are being debated and this video is good in that it shows one of the many areas in which women are employed but not paid for their labour. An excellent example of the double duty/shift which never stops. Excellent sound effects. It’s not really a weakness, but the video could include people who are not as affluent as those presented. And the video got to be a little too slow. For students at any level. Jennifer Lewis-Phillips (undergraduate) 3.5 Does a remarkable job of showing the difficulties that caregivers experience when caring for the elderly. The cases used in the video effectively demonstrate the unbearable workload, stresses, grief & anxiety that consume the lives of these women. Serial caregiving is seen as detrimental to the mental & physical welfare of these women. Also, this video illustrates how these women feel excruciatingly burnt out as they are expected to still take care of their own children & often have other jobs. Nursing homes & hired help are seen as almost a necessity; problems are only compounded when it is the ageing who are taking care of the aged. Preserving the dignity & quality of life for the elderly is identified as a struggle since many elderly persons feel defensive over the loss of their independence. The existence of self-help groups is demonstrative of the arduous nature of this extensive & time-consuming job. However, what the video did not tackle was the gendered character of this serial caregiving. The video did not discuss how taking care of these elderly family and non-family members threatens to make their retirement pensions unstable. Also, while nursing homes & hired help are solutions to some, the majority cannot afford such privileges. However, with the population ageing in Canada, it is very important to see the ramifications of this kind of caregiving on women & begin to think of alternatives, remedies, or strategies to diffuse the strain on serial caregivers. For students at any level. Belinda Godwin 3 Emotionally compelling, wrenching, not sentimental.
Shows a range of caregivers’ situations and the effects of care-giving
on their health, social life, family relations, work choices. Doesn’t
take up the political economy of caregiving. Lecture topics: women and
work, health, aging, privatization. Kathy Bischoping & Riley Olstead
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