Aging and Generational Relations Over the Life Course: A Historical and Cross-cultural Perspective

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Author(s): Tamara K. Hareven (ed.)
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Year: 1996

Language: English
Pages: 533
City: Berlin
Tags: Medicine; Clinical Medicine; Public Health; Social Sciences; Sociology; Social Structures; Social Interaction; Population; Social Anthropology

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