Sociological Engagement with Folkloric Geriatric Folks: A Guinean and Sierra Leonean Enunciative Biology

Albeit traditionally, devoted cultural belief was the solid foundation of attention and help for cultural elderly individuals in Guinea and Sierra Leone, pressures of global development, social transformation, industrialization and the economic adverse winds battering these nations have crumbled this ancient family structure. The mutual connections which flourished between social associates of the binuclear clan and their elderly relations, who represented as chiefs, patriarchs or matriarchs for the clan or household groupings, have been weakened, thus exhibiting them to powerlessness. Also worsening their condition is the collapsed and basic realty of social protection initiatives for elderly individuals in these nations. Subsequently, elderly individuals in Guinea and Sierra Leone are prone to poverty, disease, forsaking and disregard, and mistreat, and so on. This is problematic, considering that life span should be acknowledged as one of the valuable accomplishment of present times. Elderly individuals are therefore social victims of long-lived, thus depriving cultural society of this social population gain. This research article examines conventional and non-conventional social structures of care for elderly individuals in Guinea and Sierra Leone, via a relational contact. The article is established on literature casing and review of policy records or papers as its principal methodology.