Context, Resources and Older Spouse Carers

Due to the fragmentation of research into unpaid caring and older age and its commonly adopted individualised focus, the interaction between structure and constraint on one hand and meaning and action on the other has been neglected especially with regard to the experiences of older spouse carers. It will be the purpose of this chapter to explore these issues by focusing on the way in which access to resources and contextual factors more generally can influence the experience of caring.