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Seminar: Older Persons, Care Needs and Social Grants

When: Tuesday, 11 June 2024 - Tuesday, 11 June 2024
Where: Hybrid Event
Parktown Management Campus
2 St David's Place, Parktown, Johannesburg, 2193
Start time:14:00
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kitso.kgaboesele@wits.ac.za

 
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SCIS warmly invites you to a seminar with Prof Elana Moore titled Older Persons, Care Needs and Social Grants on 11 June 2024, 14:00 - 15:00 (SAST)

The Southern Centre for Inequality Studies (SCIS) is pleased to welcome Professor Elena Moore who will discuss her latest research on Older Persons, Care Needs, and Social Grants. 

Older persons in South Africa are aided by government-funded non-contributory pensions. The seminar will draw on a recent report that tells the story of the financial lives of older person grant beneficiaries and raises questions for reviewing ageing policy and better meeting the needs of older persons. A lot of the research on the Older Persons Grant focuses on the poverty-alleviating aspects of the grant, especially at a household level. There has been little attention paid to the outcomes for older persons at an individual level, particularly in relation to their needs such as their care needs, access to health, nutrition, assistive devices etc. Policy makes the assumptions that older persons get the grant, therefore they don’t invest more on funding services, even though it is widely known that the grant is used for households not older persons alone. The report therefore examines how the older persons’ needs are being met especially in relation to the actual outcomes that are possible given the amount of money that is available. For a more detailed understanding of state financing of elder care, please read the Funding Elder Care in South Africa report alongside this report. 

About the speaker:
Professor Elena Moore is with the Department of Sociology at the University of Cape Town. She is author of Generation, Gender and Negotiating Custom in South Africa (Routledge, 2022), Divorce, Families and Emotion Work (Palgrave, 2017) and (with Chuma Himonga) Reform of Customary Marriage, Divorce and Succession in South Africa (Juta & Co. 2015), as well as numerous journal articles and book chapters. She is also a recipient of the Distinguished Teaching Award 2021, University of Cape Town. Moore obtained a Wellcome Career Award, 2023-2028 to develop and grow a research programme in Family Caregiving of Older Persons In Southern Africa (www.familycaregiving.org.za) 

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