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Quand les services facilitent ou nuisent au pouvoir des aidantes familiales

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 March 2010

Jean-Pierre Lavoie ,
Diane Lessard ,
Lucy Barylak  and
Dominique Côté
Jean-Pierre Lavoie*
Affiliation:
CLSC René-Cassin, Institut de gérontologie sociale du Québec / Direction de la santé publique de Montréal-Centre
Diane Lessard
Affiliation:
CLSC René-Cassin, Institut de gérontologie sociale du Québec
Lucy Barylak
Affiliation:
CLSC René-Cassin, Institut de gérontologie sociale du Québec
Dominique Côté
Affiliation:
CLSC René-Cassin, Institut de gérontologie sociale du Québec
*
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Abstract

Few studies have integrated the concept of empowerment in their analysis of the interaction between formal services and informal caregivers. This study was conducted among 32 female informal caregivers living in a district served by a Montreal local community service centre (CLSC). It was designed to identify those aspects of formal services that either empowered caregivers or increased their powerlessness. Three major issues were identified: norms applicable to care giving; access to and control over resources and services; and power relationships with practitioners. Depending on their context and their perception of their role as a caregiver, caregivers reported that their recourse to services was either an empowering experience or one that increased their powerlessness.

Résumé

Peu de recherches ont adopté la perspective de l'empowerment dans l'étude de l'interaction entre les services et les aidantes familiales. La recherche présentée ici a été menée auprès de 32 aidantes d'un territoire de CLSC de Montréal. Elle avait pour objectif d'identifier les éléments des services qui favorisent l'empowerment ou lui font obstacle chez les aidantes. Ces éléments concernent trois enjeux majeurs: les normes associées à l'aide et au soin, l'accès aux ressources et aux services et l'emprise sur ceux-ci et, enfin, les rapports de pouvoir avec les professionnels. Selon les contextes et la centralité de l'aide et des soins dans leur identité, les aidantes rapportent surtout des expériences d'empowerment dans leurs contacts avec les services ou, à l'opposé, surtout des expériences où leur impuissance a été alimentée.

Keywords

Aidantes familialesservicesexpérienceempowermentvieillissementAidantes familialesservicesexpérienceempowermentvieillissement
Type
Articles
Information
Canadian Journal on Aging / La Revue canadienne du vieillissement , Volume 22 , Issue 4 , Winter/Hiver 2003 , pp. 381 - 394
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Association on Gerontology 2003

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