The number of “left-behind” rural elderly has been increasing in China. Although support examined, the existing studies mainly reveal current living arrangements and actual that adult migrant children provide for their old parents. migrants’ intended parents have rarely investigated. Therefore, paper aims to investigate pattern explore underlying decision-making involved intend aging countrysid...

BACKGROUND This study explored the effects of an integrated care model aimed at the frail elderly on the perceived health, objective burden, subjective burden and quality of life of informal caregivers. METHODS A quasi-experimental design with before/after measurement (with questionnaires) and a control group was used. The analysis encompassed within and between groups analyses and regression...

Many studies which examine intergenerational relations draw conclusions based on information collected from only one generation. In other words, interviews are only conducted with an aging parent or an adult child, but rarely both. Using data from the 1993 wave of the Survey of Health and Living Status of the Elderly in Taiwan, we examine the extent to which adult children and their aging paren...

This study empirically examines whether child characteristics mitigate the negative impact of widowhood on elderly’s mental health using follow-up survey data from China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS). A total 5,326 older adults aged 60 years are selected three waves panel (2013, 2015, 2018). The findings suggest that respondents who experienced exhibit an increase in depress...

Griliches and the anonymous referee for very helpful comments. Partial financial support from the World Bank through RPO 676-24 is gratefully acknowledged. How can parents secure old-age support in the form of care, attention or financial transfers from their children? We explore the enforcement of implicit intergenerational agreements from a fresh angle by studying the possibility that the chi...

Policy on care in the community was founded on the premise that the care of frail elderly people with disabilities would be a joint responsibility for health and social care professionals, and family carers, supported by people within their social networks. The policy assumes that such social networks are common features of all communities in contemporary Britain, containing a reserve of people...