Aging and Generational Relations over the Life Course: A Historical and Cross-Cultural Perspective

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  • ISBN-13: 9783110138757
  • Publisher: De Gruyter, Walter, Inc.
  • Publication date: 11/1/1995
  • Format: Library Binding
  • Pages: 533

Table of Contents

Introduction: Aging and Generational Relations Over the Life Course 1
Kinship and Care for the Aged in Traditional Rural Iberia 13
Household Patterns of the Elderly and the Proximity of Children in a Nineteenth Century City; Verviers, Belgium, 1831-1846 30
"The Life Stairs": Aging, Generational Relations, and Small Commodity Production in Central Europe 53
Aging in a Never-Empty Nest: The Elasticity of the Stem Family 75
The Family, State Support and Generational Relations in Rural Ireland at the Turn of the Twentieth Century 100
Relations Between Older Adults and Their Adult Children in a Nineteenth-Century Italian Town 120
Retirement, Inheritance, and Generational Relations: Life-Course Analysis in Historic Eastern Europe 140
Gender, Rural-Urban and Socio-Economic Differences in Coresidence of the Elderly with Adult Children: The Case of Sweden 1860-1940 158
Asymmetry in Intergenerational Family Relationships in Italy 191
Equity Between Generations in Aging Societies: The Problem of Assessing Public Policies 208
Residence and Family Support Systems for Widows In Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Texas 225
Living Arrangements of the Elderly in America: 1880-1980 254
The Generation in the Middle: Cohort Comparisons in Assistance to Aging Parents in an American Community 272
Fathers and Sons in Rural America: Occupational Choice and Intergenerational Ties Across the Life Course 294
The Well-Being of Aging Americans With Very Old Parents 327
Exchanges Within Black American Three-Generation Families: The Family Environment Context Model 347
The Demography of Family Care for the Elderly 378
Types of Supports for the Aged and Their Providers in Taiwan 400
Familial Support and the Life Course of Thai Elderly and Their Children 438
Intergenerational Support In Sri Lanka: The Elderly and Their Children 462
Some Inter- and Intracohort Comparisons of Generational Interactions. From the Acquisition of Parental Roles through Postparenthood in Japan, 1914-1958 483
Generational Relations and Their Changes As They Affect the Status of Older People in Japan 511
Generational Relations: A Future Perspective 526
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