Migration and Ageing
overseas labor migration has implications for the elderly. For one, owing to rising numbers of younger women leaving for overseas work, there seems to be a decreasing number of caregivers for older persons and children, as well as a greater need for older persons, especially women, to substitute for their absent daughters (POPCOM, 2002)
Many pieces of anecdotal evidence have shown the important role of elderly in the emerging reconfiguration of family roles as an offshore of migration.
When parents are away working abroad, grandparents usually assume the role of rearing the children. They have assumed this role not because of the need to have an adult take care of the children's needs, but also because they would want to have a hand in ensuring the welfare of their children. Performing this role is a challenge to older people's health. ( Cruz, 1996 POPCOM,2002)
Noticebly, Filipinos over 60 years old are also migrating. CFO data of registered emigrants include 103,004 Filipinos who had migrated when they were over 60 years old and become permanent resident and emigrants from 1981 to 2005.
In the United States, for example, 334,022 Filipinos over 55 years, and 165,748 who are 65 and above. Many of these elderly Filipinos, if given the chance, will work to earn in the host countries.
The elderly have played a key role in reducing the strain experienced by Filipino families because of international migration.Probing deeper into their conditions as overseas workers or as caretakers of children left behind warrants further studies.
Many pieces of anecdotal evidence have shown the important role of elderly in the emerging reconfiguration of family roles as an offshore of migration.
When parents are away working abroad, grandparents usually assume the role of rearing the children. They have assumed this role not because of the need to have an adult take care of the children's needs, but also because they would want to have a hand in ensuring the welfare of their children. Performing this role is a challenge to older people's health. ( Cruz, 1996 POPCOM,2002)
Noticebly, Filipinos over 60 years old are also migrating. CFO data of registered emigrants include 103,004 Filipinos who had migrated when they were over 60 years old and become permanent resident and emigrants from 1981 to 2005.
In the United States, for example, 334,022 Filipinos over 55 years, and 165,748 who are 65 and above. Many of these elderly Filipinos, if given the chance, will work to earn in the host countries.
The elderly have played a key role in reducing the strain experienced by Filipino families because of international migration.Probing deeper into their conditions as overseas workers or as caretakers of children left behind warrants further studies.
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