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Title Aging and generational relations over the life course : a historical and cross-cultural perspective / edited by Tamara K. Hareven
Published Berlin ; New York : W. de Gruyter, 1996

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Description 1 online resource (vi, 533 pages) : illustrations, map
Contents Introduction: Aging and Generational Relations Over the Life Course / Tamara K. Hareven -- Kinship and Care for the Aged in Traditional Rural Iberia / Stanley Brandes -- Household Patterns of the Elderly and the Proximity of Children in a Nineteenth Century City; Verviers, Belgium, 1831-1846 / George Alter, Lisa Cliggett and Alex Urbiel -- "The Life Stairs": Aging, Generational Relations, and Small Commodity Production in Central Europe / Josef Ehmer -- Aging in a Never-Empty Nest: The Elasticity of the Stem Family / Antoinette Fauve-Chamoux -- The Family, State Support and Generational Relations in Rural Ireland at the Turn of the Twentieth Century / Timothy W. Guinnane -- Relations Between Older Adults and Their Adult Children in a Nineteenth-Century Italian Town / David I. Kertzer and Dennis P. Hogan -- Retirement, Inheritance, and Generational Relations: Life-Course Analysis in Historic Eastern Europe / Andrejs Plakans -- Gender, Rural-Urban and Socio-Economic Differences in Coresidence of the Elderly with Adult Children: The Case of Sweden 1860-1940 / Lars-Goran Tedebrand -- Asymmetry in Intergenerational Family Relationships in Italy / Marzio Barbagli -- Equity Between Generations in Aging Societies: The Problem of Assessing Public Policies / Anne-Marie Guillemard -- Residence and Family Support Systems for Widows In Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Texas / Jane Zachritz and Myron P. Gutmann -- Living Arrangements of the Elderly in America: 1880-1980 / Steven Ruggles -- The Generation in the Middle: Cohort Comparisons in Assistance to Aging Parents in an American Community / Tamara K. Hareven and Kathleen J. Adams -- Fathers and Sons in Rural America: Occupational Choice and Intergenerational Ties Across the Life Course / Glen H. Elder, Jr., Elizabeth B. Robertson and Rand D. Conger -- The Well-Being of Aging Americans With Very Old Parents / Dennis P. Hogan, David J. Eggebeen and Sean M. Snaith -- Exchanges Within Black American Three-Generation Families: The Family Environment Context Model / James S. Jackson, Rukmalie Jayakody and Toni C. Antonucci -- The Demography of Family Care for the Elderly / Douglas A. Wolf, Beth J. Soldo and Vicki Freedman -- Types of Supports for the Aged and Their Providers in Taiwan / Albert I. Hermalin, Mary Beth Ofstedal and Ming-Cheng Chang -- Familial Support and the Life Course of Thai Elderly and Their Children / John Knodel, Napaporn Chayovan and Siriwan Siriboon -- Intergenerational Support In Sri Lanka: The Elderly and Their Children / Peter Uhlenberg -- Some Inter- and Intracohort Comparisons of Generational Interactions. From the Acquisition of Parental Roles through Postparenthood in Japan, 1914-1958 / Kanji Masaoka and Sumiko Fujimi -- Generational Relations and Their Changes As They Affect the Status of Older People in Japan / Kiyomi Morioka -- Generational Relations: A Future Perspective / Matilda White Riley and John W. Riley, Jr
Notes P. [vii]: "Volume result[ing] from the International Conference on Aging and Generational Relations over the Life Course ... University of Delaware, October, 1992."
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
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Subject Older people -- Care -- History -- Cross-cultural studies -- Congresses.
Older people -- Family relationships -- History -- Cross-cultural studies -- Congresses.
Aging -- History -- Cross-cultural studies.
Intergenerational relations -- History -- Cross-cultural studies -- Congresses.
Intergenerational relations -- History -- Cross-cultural studies.
Older people -- Care -- Cross-cultural studies -- Congresses.
Older people -- Social conditions -- Cross-cultural studies -- Congresses.
Older people -- Family relationships -- Cross-cultural studies -- Congresses.
Aging -- History -- Cross-cultural studies -- Congresses.
Older people -- Social conditions -- Cross-cultural studies.
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings.
Author Hareven, Tamara K.
International Conference on Aging and Generational Relations over the Life Course (1992 : University of Delaware)
LC no. 95045282
ISBN 3110875527 (electronic bk)
9783110875522 (electronic bk)