Even if the elderly and disabled need the assistance of their families, parents, and healthcare providers, they prefer to live in their homes instead of assisted-living centers. Therefore, their health and activities must be remotely monitored so that in case of an urgent unexpected situation, immediate help can be provided. In this respect, this paper proposes a wireless sensor network-based h...

This paper examines how adult children's expressed filial piety, receipt of help from parents, socioeconomic resources, and parents' needs are associated with the likelihood of parent-child coresidence in contemporary China. Drawing on the 2002 wave of the Chinese Survey of Family Dynamics and the 2002 wave of the Chinese Longitudinal Healthy Longevity Survey, we used logistic regression to ana...

Influenza remains a significant cause of morbidity and mortality in the United States. Vaccinating school-aged children has been demonstrated to be beneficial to the child and in reducing viral transmission to vulnerable groups such as the elderly. This qualitative study sought to identify reasons parents and students participated in a school-based influenza vaccination clinic and to characteri...

Recent scholarship has documented an alarming increase in the sex ratio at birth in parts of East Asia, South Asia and the South Caucuses. I argue that parents engage in sex selection because of patrilocal norms that dictate elderly coresidence between parents and sons. Sex ratios and coresidence rates are positively correlated when looking across countries, within countries across districts, a...

Many studies have demonstrated that social relationships confer mental health benefits. This paper aims to identify whether and how reciprocity in social relationships predicts or is associated with mental health benefits as well as with continuity in elderly people's social relationships. The studies reviewed in this paper show that, among elders, being in a balanced or underbenefited reciproc...

Caring for elderly, dying parents is challenging for daughters as they try to balance other obligations and responsibilities. The purpose of this grounded theory study was to explain the domain of daughters' caregiving experiences in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. The primary author interviewed 12 women whose parents had died. Three types of turmoil (emotional, relational, and societal) eme...

The authors focus on a traditional culture in which the elderly tend to live with their children, aiming shed light whether education of own children within same household helps reduce chances parents’ being mentally and physically abused by family members. Using multivariate analysis investigate association between children’s domestic elder abuse from Vietnam Aging Survey 2011, comprising 2,70...

This study examines the effects of geographical distance between adult offspring and their elderly parents on support provided to in rural China. Monetary non-monetary is closely related physical psychological well-being elderly. Three waves China Health Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS) are used identify a causal effect location outcomes such as financial transfers provision emotion/physi...

Introduction: malnutrition is still a problem in Indonesia. The general objective of this study was to determine the effect health education media (video and print media) on parents' knowledge, attitudes skills regarding nutrition before after intervention. Methods: quasi-experimental research design, sample parents who have preschool age children with total 60 respondents (30 people interventi...