Being old in times of AIDS
Aging, caring and relating in northwest Tanzania
Josien de Klerk
Leiden: African Studies Centre, African studies
collection 37, 2011.
The HIV/AIDS epidemic in northwest Tanzania has profoundly shaped the
experience of growing old. Older men and women take on new care tasks, such
as caring for orphaned grandchildren and nursing dying patients. Yet, at the
same time, while the elderly grow older, their own old-age care becomes
increasingly uncertain. Situating older people’s stories in debates around
kinship and relating, this detailed ethnographic account captures the
diverse experiences of growing old in the era of AIDS and shows how this
process implies a tension between the increased necessity to forge relations
of care and the confrontation with the aging body.
Josien de Klerk obtained her masters degree in medical anthropology at the
Radboud University, Nijmegen. She is currently working as a post-doctoral
researcher at the University of Amsterdam.
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978-90-5448-109-6
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