{"id":513,"date":"2023-07-16T11:54:35","date_gmt":"2023-07-16T18:54:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/bycacamshowcase\/?p=513"},"modified":"2025-07-18T22:25:32","modified_gmt":"2025-07-19T05:25:32","slug":"eunicelai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/bycacamshowcase\/2023\/eunicelai\/","title":{"rendered":"Take care of me when I\u2019m older"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>[H]ow can filial piety be a double-edged sword in the context of caregivers&#8217; mental health?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Host:<br \/>\nEunice Lai \u9ece\u5b5d\u8a69 (she\/hers)<\/p>\n<p>In this podcast submission, Eunice dives into the concept of filial piety within the context of a Hong Kong Canadian family. In particular, filial piety entails expectations about intergenerational caregiving from someone from a younger generation to someone from an older generation, with common interpretations of it requiring an immense level of self-sacrifice at the expense (or disregard) of one&#8217;s own well-being. This kind of caregiver role strain becomes compounded when the caregiver themselves is having to manage other issues and demands on their cognitive capacity on top of caregiving tasks. In Eunice&#8217;s case, her father took on a caregiving role for his father; but the stress of that role became exacerbated by her father&#8217;s own concerns and emotions surrounding the Hong Kong protests in 2019-2020. 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Host: Eunice Lai \u9ece\u5b5d\u8a69 (she\/hers) In this podcast submission, Eunice dives into the concept of filial piety within the context of a Hong Kong Canadian family. In particular, filial piety entails expectations about intergenerational caregiving from someone from a younger &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/bycacamshowcase\/2023\/eunicelai\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Take care of me when I\u2019m older&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59280,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[92,1,47],"tags":[103,54,40,85],"class_list":["post-513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2023podcasts","category-acam330","category-podcasts","tag-caregiver-role-strain","tag-culture","tag-mental-health","tag-mental-health-support"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/bycacamshowcase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/bycacamshowcase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/bycacamshowcase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/bycacamshowcase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59280"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/bycacamshowcase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=513"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/bycacamshowcase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":673,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/bycacamshowcase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513\/revisions\/673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/bycacamshowcase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/bycacamshowcase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/bycacamshowcase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}