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Journal of Intergenerational Relationships
- Publisher:
- Routledge
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia
The scope of this journal encompasses both research and practice in the cross-cutting field of intergenerational studies. It embraces relevant papers from many other disciplines such as social work, psychology, sociology, gerontology, child development and family studies. This journal is indexed and abstracted selectively on Social Care Online.
Experiences of vulnerability due to loss of support by aged parents of emigrated children: a hermeneutic literature review
- Authors:
- VENTER Irene C., WYK Neltjie C.
- Journal article citation:
- Community Work and Family, 22(3), 2019, pp.255-266.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
In disrupted families due to migration individual members support each other through transnational care. The care is often reciprocal as the members who are left behind support the members who emigrated and in return receive care from the emigrated family members. Aged parents who get left behind, however, often become vulnerable. The hermeneutic literature review shows that social, psychological or emotional and economic vulnerability are experienced. They have to deal with cultural challenges as their children form part of a new culture in their receiving country. Strong feelings of loss, helplessness and loneliness are experienced. The emigration of their children may also contribute to the financial vulnerability of the elderly. (Edited publisher abstract)
Balancing generations: on the strength and character of family norms in the West and East of Europe
- Authors:
- DAATLAND Svein Olav, HERLOFSON Katharina, LIMA Ivar A.
- Journal article citation:
- Ageing and Society, 31(7), October 2011, pp.1159-1179.
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
This study examined the strength and character of responsibility norms between older parents and adult children. Quantitative data from the ‘Generations and Gender Survey’ were investigated to compare seven countries from Europe, namely Norway, Germany, France, Romania, Bulgaria, Russia and Georgia. Norm strength is measured as the level of support for family and parental responsibility norms. Character differences are indicated by how conditional the norms are, and how they are balanced between generations. Findings revealed that family norms were stronger towards the East and South of the Europe, with Norway and Georgia as the extreme cases. National differences were considerable for familial norms, but moderate for parental norms. Parental responsibility was relatively stronger in the North West, familial responsibility in the South East. Women were less supportive of family obligations than men. The authors concluded that where the welfare state is more developed, it has moderated the demanding character of family obligations and lead to a more independent relationship between generations.
Too old to care?: the experiences of older grandparents raising their grandchildren
- Author:
- WELLARD Sarah
- Publisher:
- Grandparents Plus
- Publication year:
- 2011
- Pagination:
- 50p.
- Place of publication:
- London
There are an estimated 25,000 grandparents over the age of 65 raising 30,000 grandchildren in the UK. This report focuses on the experiences of older grandparents who are raising their grandchildren. The study involved: a survey completed by 32 grandparents aged over 65; and in-depth interviews and a focus group with 18 grandparent carers aged over 65. The report highlights the challenges older carers face, including isolation, discrimination and poverty. It shows how older grandparents face prolonged legal battles, lack of support and financial hardship as they fight to care for their grandchildren. Often they are managing very difficult relationships with the children’s parents. Most of the grandparents have limiting health conditions and many are providing care and support for an adult relative or partner. Many say they have asked for help from children’s services but not received what they needed. Others avoid contact because they fear the children they are looking after will be taken away. Despite the challenges, they are able to provide children with love, stability and continuity of family relationships. The report concludes with a number of recommendations for improving the support provided to them and the children they are raising.
Age in the welfare state: the origins of social spending on pensioners, workers, and children
- Author:
- LYNCH Julia
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
- Publication year:
- 2006
- Pagination:
- 223p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- New York
Socio-economic conditions have caused problems for many countries in funding their social spending. The book alleges that the welfare state’s role in caring for young people and the elderly plays an important part in political debates about welfare reform. An allegedly elderly bias in American social spending has, during recent years, nourished intense political debates about generational equity. In many European countries, however, relatively high incomes from pensions and increasing rates of child poverty suggest a contrary argument. Unequal benefits for the old and the young provide ammunition for those who advocate more support for people at all stages of life, but also for those who wish to cut existing benefits in the name of intergenerational equity. This book begins with an analysis of social spending patterns in twenty industrialised democracies. Welfare states work better for some age groups than others. It emerges that social programs in the United States and Italy do prioritise the elderly, while Norway and Portugal prioritise low-income families, children and the long-term unemployed. The first half of the book establishes a strategy for conceptualising and measuring these differences and then explores a series of competing hypotheses about why countries might vary in the age orientation of their social policy systems. The second half of the book amplifies and tests these rival hypotheses using paired case studies. The book analyses the causes and consequences of age orientation in social spending policy.
Understanding the risks of social exclusion across the life course
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Cabinet Office. Social Exclusion Task Force
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Cabinet Office. Social Exclusion Task Force
- Publication year:
- 2009
- Pagination:
- 15p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This project provides quantitative data on the complex relationships between different risk markers of social exclusion and how they vary among the British population. The background, aims and methodology, and key messages and implications for policy in the four projects on children and families, youth and young adulthood, working age adults without dependent children and older age are outlined.
Monitoring the implementation of lifetime homes in London: London plan research project June 2008
- Author:
- SAVILLS
- Publisher:
- Greater London Authority
- Publication year:
- 2008
- Pagination:
- 73p.
- Place of publication:
- London
As part of his commitment to delivering the homes Londoners need, the Mayor wants to ensure that the needs of older and disabled people, and families with small children are addressed by homes that are accessible and adaptable and able to meet the needs of occupiers throughout their lifetime. With this in mind, he is keen to ensure compliance with the Lifetime Home standards developed by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation in the 1990s and now included in the Code for Sustainable Homes. This research by Savills was commissioned by the GLA to assess how effectively existing London Plan policies regarding use of the standard have been implemented, and how consistently they are being interpreted across the capital. The report makes a range of recommendations on policy and guidance, monitoring and implementation.
Changing patterns of contact with and attitudes to the family in Denmark
- Author:
- LEESON George W.
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Intergenerational Relationships, 3(3), 2005, pp.25-45.
- Publisher:
- Routledge
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia
This paper considers the patterns of contact older people in Denmark have with children and siblings, and Danish attitudes to the family as a supportive institution. The paper presents results of the Danish Longitudinal (Panel) Future Study. This interviewed three different cohorts aged 40-44, 50-54 and 60-64 years at Phase I in 1987. These were re-interviewed in Phase II in 1997 aged 50-54, 60-64 and 70-74 years, respectively, along with a new cohort of 40-44-year-olds. All cohorts have moved towards more contact with children and siblings, and a more positive view on the family as a supportive institution, indicating that there seems to have been a general move in the population as a whole and not just in specific cohorts or age groups-in other words, a period effect. The significant move towards a more positive view on the family as a supportive institution is interesting in view of the fact that the supportive role of reconstituted and step families in later life has been the cause of concern, the familial complexities not lending themselves to any particular pattern or structure of care. Even in Denmark, while there is a trend on the surface towards looser-knit, divorce-extended families, the importance of the family and of the family as a supportive institution has not weakened-on the contrary. (Copies of this article are available from: Haworth Document Delivery Centre, Haworth Press Inc., 10 Alice Street, Binghamton, NY 13904-1580).
Adult children taking care of their aging parents: a multiple-case study on caregivers' perspectives
- Authors:
- XIAOLIN Xie, XIA Yan
- Journal article citation:
- Asia Pacific Journal of Social Work, 11(2), September 2001, pp.53-64.
- Publisher:
- Times Academic
This qualitative study with 8 adult children providing care to their aging parents revealed 4 major themes: family or family network served as the major mode of elderly care, the arrangement of elderly care engendered sibling conflicts, the elderly preferred an independent household, and a need for organised social service programmes to supplement the current model of family care for elderly members.
Grandparents raising grandchildren: emerging programme and policy issues for the 21st century
- Authors:
- SMITH Carrie Jefferson, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Gerontological Social Work, 34(1), 2001, pp.81-94.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
In recent years the issue of grandparents raising their grandchildren seems to have leapt into the consciousness of researchers, advocates, service providers, policy analysts and the general public. This article explores the development of this issue, from an American perspective seeking to explain why it is capturing the attention of some advocates, researchers and policymakers, identify the challenges for grandparent-headed families and explore public policies and programmes emerging from a developing intergenerational agenda directed at assisting such families.