Aging and Generations in Cuba: Unravelling the Care Crisis

By Blandine Destremau-Zeitz

Based on a twelve-year ethnographic study in Havana and rural areas, this book examines the current crisis of eldercare in Cuba, underpinned by advanced demographic aging. With great humanity and a lively narrative, Destremau-Zeitz shows how intergenerational households enact interdependency and solidarity in response to the many complexities of daily life and a protracted economic crisis. Beyond the multidimensional crisis of care, the author argues that Cuba is facing a crisis of social reproduction that appears specific to (ex)socialist countries but holds lessons for many of the world's developed nations as well.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1666904635
• ISBN13: 9781666904635
• Release Date: May 2023
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"