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The Family in Europe: Structure, Intergenerational Solidarity, and New Challenges to Family Health

Titulo The Family in Europe: Structure, Intergenerational Solidarity, and New Challenges to Family Health
Autoría Montoro-Gurich C, Garcia-Vivar C.
Fuente Fam Nurs. 2019 May;25(2):170-189. doi: 10.1177/1074840719841404. Epub 2019 Apr 19. 10.1177/1074840719841404
Resumen Understanding the family experience of health and illness within the family's social and cultural context helps health professionals understand a family's stories. The purpose of this article is to present salient characteristics of the Western European family to extend understanding about family structure and values in relation to caring and intergenerational solidarity. The goal is to provide nurses and other health professionals with culturally competent knowledge that can inform practice with families. Evidence suggests that a family model, characterized by strong-family type societies consisting of coresidence, solidarity, and intergenerational relationships, stalwartly continues in Mediterranean countries. However, due to the recent economic crisis in Spain and other European countries, there is a trend toward the withdrawal of state responsibility toward the family, and an increasing weight on families' responsibility, particularly for women, toward the care of their old and chronically ill relative. Therefore, there is a need to make health and social systems more effective, sustainable, and focused on family care.
URL www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30999801