Family life in old age: Proceedings of the meetings of the European Social Sciences Research Committee in Dubrovnik, Yugoslavia, 19-23 October 1976, and Ystad, Sweden, 26-30 September, 1977

The Netherlands Interuniversity Demographic Institute (N.I.D.I.) and the Population and Family Study Centre (C.B.G.S.) evidence the growing importance attached to the field of social gerontology. The two institutions are designed to coordinate and to stimulate all kind of re~ search in the field of population and family. Long-run trends in demographic processes of mortality and fertility have had consequences for the kin network. The increasing nurober of aged peo~le in the total population...