Strong welfare states are often assumed to be lacking in intergenerational family care engagements. This article challenges this narrative by putting conceptualisations of individualisation and autonomy into conversation with theories on relationality and care, relating this to biographical narratives of intergenerational care practices during the expansion of the Swedish welfare state. The research involves in-depth interviews with 63 informants spanning three generations – grandparents, adult children and grandchildren – exploring their lived experiences of care practices and relations across the lifespan. By employing Mason’s framework of relational layers , the study shows the complex nature of intergenerational engagements, suggesting the concept of sentient engagements as a lens through which to understand the increased importance of emotional activities of care in people’s everyday lives. By putting narratives of care at different points in time – the post-war era, the 1960s–1980s and the 2000s – against each other, the study highlights changing practical and sentient engagements. Particularly notable is the growing significance of grandparent–grandchild relationships, which emerge as crucial sites of support – but also ambivalence – in intergenerational care relations.

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护理传记：在强大的福利国家中，对代际护理下降的叙述提出了挑战

人们通常认为在代际家庭护理活动中缺乏强大的福利国家。本文通过将个体化和自主性的概念与关系和护理理论进行对话来挑战这种叙述，并将其与瑞典福利国家扩张期间代际护理实践的传记叙述联系起来。该研究涉及对三代人（祖父母、成年子女和孙子女）的 63 名线人进行深入访谈，探索他们在整个生命周期中对护理实践和关系的生活经历。通过采用梅森的关系层框架，该研究显示了代际参与的复杂性，提出了有感知参与的概念，通过该镜头可以理解护理的情感活动在人们日常生活中日益增长的重要性。通过将不同时间点（战后时代、1960 年代至 1980 年代和 2000 年代）的护理叙述相互对立，该研究突出了不断变化的实际和感知参与。特别值得注意的是祖父母与孙辈关系的重要性日益增加，在代际照顾关系中，祖父母与孙辈的关系成为支持的重要场所，但也是矛盾的场所。