ABSTRACT
This chapter examines both the general ideas about caring and the suggestions that were made as to how it might be managed. Caring responsibilities for an elderly parent tend to come upon one in the latter part of one’s own life. There is an increasing recognition that there are in fact many elderly carers looking after still more elderly parents. When women are working, looking after children and carrying a major responsibility of care for an elderly relative, it places considerable strain upon everyone in the family. A number of the women reflected upon the issues of gender and caring. How the men in one’s life respond to one’s caring responsibilities is clearly of critical importance. Caring for elderly parents is a worthy job and needs to be recognised for what it is, a contribution to the whole community as well as to the wellbeing of a particular individual.
