Oksana explained that the existing research on Ukraine shows that those are families who consistently and invariably remain the main providers for the elderly, despite changes of political regimes, economic models and demographic dynamics. Hence, she and her colleagues sought to answer the question: how families navigate in the existing care infrastructure, arranging care in different circumstances conditioned by broader state policies and the war today?
In order to answer this question, the researchers mapped the context of elderly care in Ukraine: they summarized what is known about the situation of elderly and care provisioning for them, outlined the existing landscape of elderly care infrastructure and its key transformations over the decades of post-Soviet transition and post-2014 neoliberal austerity, reforms and war. Further, analyzing 40 in-depth interviews, the researchers explored how families manage elderly care in the existing fragmented landscape, varying personal, social and historical circumstances. The results show, that many families patchtheir elderly care from a variety of sources, located in the grey areas of social provisions and the for-profit care sector. These results allow reflecting on the scope of options of elderly care available for families and how those are mobilized, and impacted by the broader context of familialistic model, fragmentation of care provisioning, and disruptions by the war.
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