TY - JOUR
T1 - Barriers to participation in tourism linked respite care
AU - Hunter-Jones, Philippa
AU - Sudbury-Riley, Lynn
AU - Chan, Jade
AU - Al-Abdin, Ahmed
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors extend their gratitude to all the caregivers and members of the hospice community who gave their time freely to contribute to this study.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2022 The Authors
PY - 2023/1
Y1 - 2023/1
N2 - Successive interventions designed to curb the spread of COVID-19 have all served to exacerbate the demands placed upon informal carers, a population indispensable to health care systems. The need for breaks from caring has never been so pronounced. This paper adopts, and extends, the theory of hierarchical leisure constraints to better understand barriers to tourism respite participation. Lived experiences are collected via story-telling techniques (n = 157) from carers taking trips of one night or more away during times of palliative and end-of-life care. Three cross-cutting constraints are emergent in the data: awareness (knowing); access (doing); and anxiety (feeling). Negotiation strategies are suggested, hierarchical implications questioned and the opportunity to explore a temporal dimension to tourism constraints in future research signalled.
AB - Successive interventions designed to curb the spread of COVID-19 have all served to exacerbate the demands placed upon informal carers, a population indispensable to health care systems. The need for breaks from caring has never been so pronounced. This paper adopts, and extends, the theory of hierarchical leisure constraints to better understand barriers to tourism respite participation. Lived experiences are collected via story-telling techniques (n = 157) from carers taking trips of one night or more away during times of palliative and end-of-life care. Three cross-cutting constraints are emergent in the data: awareness (knowing); access (doing); and anxiety (feeling). Negotiation strategies are suggested, hierarchical implications questioned and the opportunity to explore a temporal dimension to tourism constraints in future research signalled.
KW - Ageing population
KW - Hospices
KW - Informal carers
KW - Temporality
KW - Theory of hierarchical leisure constraints
KW - Trajectory touchpoint technique
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U2 - 10.1016/j.annals.2022.103508
DO - 10.1016/j.annals.2022.103508
M3 - Article
C2 - 36466306
AN - SCOPUS:85142702973
SN - 0160-7383
VL - 98
JO - Annals of Tourism Research
JF - Annals of Tourism Research
M1 - 103508
ER -