Abstract
This auto-ethnographic project includes lifestyle images and offers an artistically curated photograph exhibit. This closely examines daily life in eldercare from a daughter’s viewpoint and expresses emotions from the complexity of the labor surrounding extended care. A poetic narrative is inserted in the Prologue of Return Home. It is transformative to consider the concept of Querencia, where people feel most secure, gain strength of character, and feel most at home. This project situates the power of storytelling as a valid source of knowledge production for understanding alternative perspectives of care. This undertaking reveals how implementing and embracing cultural practices around traditions and food collectively connects the caretakers. This approach becomes attached to identity and recognizes this self-care as a form of activism. The experience’s origins stemmed from a Marxist perspective but transformed into a heartfelt sentiment where culture, traditions, and home become the mitigating agents toward healing.
Details
Presentation Type
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
Theme
Social and Cultural Perspectives on Aging
KEYWORDS
Elder care, Traditional Healing, Alternative Resources, Critical Medical Anthropology
