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HUMA Blog: Charting networks of care for the elderly in South(ern) Africa

Read the latest blog from The Institute for Humanities in Africa (HUMA) authored by Alison Kuah, which is in conversation with and reflects on A/Prof Moore’s presentation on family care in South(ern) Africa. Read more here

Ataya – the HUMA Interdisciplinary Seminar Series

In Southern Africa, family care of older persons is the dominant, and often only, means of support. The presentation looks at family care of older persons and situates local conceptualisations of care against dominant care discourses to highlight the divide between global academic and policy…

In conversation with Niémah Davids at UCT News

UCT News sat down with Associate Professor Moore to unpack the findings from research which focused on family caregivers in Cape Town and Johannesburg, which was funded by the Centre for Excellence in Human Development, and the Global Challenges Research Fund

Feminist Economics Summer School Lecture Recording

Watch my lecture on Families and Care Regimes in South Africa which I presented in February with the Institute of Economic Justice. FESS 2023 | Elena Moore — Families and the care regime in South Africa Catch up with all lectures from the event here:…

South African Human Rights Day Radio Interview

I recently joined Dr Gabrielle Kelly on Cape Talk to discuss challenges faced by family caregivers in South Africa. In the interview we introduce The Family Caregiving of Older Persons in Southern Africa Programme . Listen here

New Editorial with The Journal of Care and Caring

Prof Debora Price and myself recently published the introduction to the special issue of Family care of older persons in Southern Africa with The International Journal of Care and Caring, bringing the family care of older people in Southern Africa into focus.

About Me

Elena Moore

Elena Moore

Associate Professor, Sociology

I have been at UCT since 2011. I specialise in the sociology of the family and I have a Masters degree in Applied Social Research and a PhD from Trinity College Dublin. I am the author of Divorce, Families and Emotion Work (Palgrave, 2017) and (with Chuma Himonga) Reform of Customary Marriage, Divorce and Succession in South Africa (Juta & Co. 2015), as well as numerous journal articles and book chapters.

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