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מאמרים אקדמיים
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מאמרים נבחרים באנגלית:
Till death do us Part: Experiences
of migrant live-in care workers facing
the death of their care recipients – A study from Israel
Daniella Arieli, Gila Amitay and Dalit Yassour-Borochowitz
Palliative Care & Social Practice, 2025.
Background: End stage dementia is an inevitable phase following a prolonged deterioration. Family caregivers for people with end stage dementia who live in their home can experience an emotional burden. Emotion work and “feeling-rules” refers to socially shared norms and self-management of feelings, as well as projecting emotions appropriate for the situation, aiming at achieving a positive environment as a resource for supporting others’ wellbeing.
Objectives: Exploring and describing the experience of family caregivers of people with end stage dementia at home, in Israel, unpacking their emotional coping and the emotional-strategies they use, and placing family caregivers’ emotion work in a cultural context.
Method: We conducted fifty qualitative interviews using semi structured interviews analyzed through a thematic content analysis approach.
Findings: Four characteristics of emotion work were identified: (1) sliding between detachment and engagement, (2) separating the person from their condition (3), adoption of caregiving as a social role and a type of social reinforcement, and (4) using the caregiving role in coping with loneliness and emptiness. The emotional coping strategies are culturally contextualized, since they are influenced by the participants’ cultural background.
Discussion: This article’s focus is transparent family caregivers’ emotion work, a topic which has rarely been discussed in the literature is the context of caring for a family member with dementia at home. In our study, emotion work appears as a twofold concept: the emotion work by itself
contributed to the burden, since family caregivers’ burden experience can evolve from the dissonance between their “true” feelings of anger and frustration and their expected “acceptable” feelings (“feeling-rules”) formed by cultural norms. However, emotion work was also a major source of coping and finding strength and self-meaning. Understanding and recognizing the emotion work and the cultural and religious influence in this coping mechanism can help professionals who treat people with end stage dementia to better support family-caregivers.
Decent care and decent employment: Family caregivers, migrant care workers and moral dilemmas
Daniella Arieli and Dalit Yassour-Borochowitz
Ethics & Behavior, 2023
This paper examines moral dilemmas faced by family caregivers of older
adults who employ live-in migrant care workers. Being both a family caregiver
as well as an employer of a live-in migrant care worker often puts family
members at a crossroad, where moral decisions must be made. Lacking
a formal role, family members do not have a professional code of ethics or
other clear rules that can guide their actions, and their choices are rooted in
cultural, community, familial, and personal values. This paper discusses moral
dilemmas that result from family caregivers’ dual commitment, to the wellbeing of their older sick relative who is the recipient of care, and to the
wellbeing of the live-in care worker whom they employ. The paper uses
relational ethics as a theoretical framework to discuss three cases that involve
complex moral decision making in real life.
Family Caregivers as Employers of Migrant Live-In Care Workers: Experiences and Policy Implications
Daniella Arieli and Inbal Halevi Hochwald
Journal of Aging and Social Policy, 2023
As policymakers globally recognize aging in place as the preferred option for most adults, there is a growing need to supplement family or informal caregiving for frail older adults with formal homecare services, particularly for those who require 24/7 care due to significant physical and/or cognitive impairment.
The core objective of this qualitative study was to explore family members’ experiences in employing live-in care workers, particularly the nature of their engagement and the quality of their relationships with these care workers. Our analysis of semistructured interviews with 35 family caregivers revealed four themes:
1) challenges in acquiring support and developing dependency;
2) negotiation of roles, responsibilities, and moral dilemmas;
3) shifting emotions between trust and suspicion; and
4) role confusion, expectations, and disappointments.
The study suggests that families might benefit from formal guidance regarding fostering and maintaining positive relationships in the homecare environment. This paper provides nuanced knowledge that may inform the development of such interventions.
Nonviolent communication (NVC) based mediation: Practice insight
Daniella Arieli and Oriana Abboud Armaly
Conflict Resolution Quarterly, 2022
This paper focuses on practice insights derived from using nonviolent communication (NVC) as a method of conflict transformation. After describing the main principles and components of NVC, we will present an example from the field: a crisis in the relationships between Arab-Israeli educators and staff members of a Jewish-Israeli museum who established a partnership for a special project: to train Arab educators to teach about the Holocaust. We will focus on a conflict that threatened this partnership, and will discuss both the advantages and challenges of NVC as a mediation method.
Emotion work and feeling rules:
Coping strategies of family caregivers of people with end stage dementia in Israel—A qualitative study
Inbal Halevi Hochwald, Daniella Arieli,
Zorian Radomyslsky, Yehuda Danon and Rachel Nissanholtz-Gannot
Dementia, 2022.
Background: End stage dementia is an inevitable phase following a prolonged deterioration. Family caregivers for people with end stage dementia who live in their home can experience an emotional burden. Emotion work and “feeling-rules” refers to socially shared norms and self-management of feelings, as well as projecting emotions appropriate for the situation, aiming at achieving a positive environment as a resource for supporting others’ wellbeing.
Objectives: Exploring and describing the experience of family caregivers of people with end stage dementia at home, in Israel, unpacking their emotional coping and the emotional-strategies they use, and placing family caregivers’ emotion work in a cultural context.
Method: We conducted fifty qualitative interviews using semi structured interviews analyzed through a thematic content analysis approach.
Findings: Four characteristics of emotion work were identified:
(1) sliding between detachment and engagement, (2) separating the person from their condition (3), adoption of caregiving as a social role and a type of social reinforcement, and (4) using the caregiving role in coping with loneliness and emptiness. The emotional coping strategies are culturally contextualized, since they are influenced by the participants’ cultural background.
Discussion: This article’s focus is transparent family caregivers’ emotion work, a topic which has rarely been discussed in the literature is the context of caring for a family member with dementia at home. In our study, emotion work appears as a twofold concept: the emotion work by itself contributed to the burden, since family caregivers’ burden experience can evolve from the dissonance between their “true” feelings of anger and frustration and their expected “acceptable” feelings (“feeling-rules”) formed by cultural norms. However, emotion work was also a major source of coping and finding strength and self-meaning. Understanding and recognizing the emotion work and the cultural and religious influence in this coping mechanism can help professionals who treat people with end stage dementia to better support family-caregivers.
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