1 ABSTRACT This text is based on the fact that the viaduct areas constitute nowadays the shelter and the income source of one parcel of the urban population of great Brazilian cities. It is intended, at first, to trace a picture of habitation situation in contemporary Brazil, regarding matters related to local production and its reach. Next, through an investigation about the characteristics of...

The evidence of the impact of informal care provision on the health of carers presents a complex and contested picture, depending on the characteristics of the care studied, including its duration, which has been relatively short in previous research (up to 4 years). Drawing on data from the Office for National Statistics Longitudinal Study, a 1% sample of linked Census records for respondents ...

The development of language politeness activities under the Participatory Action Research (PAR) category which aims to provide understanding and guidance echo boomers Islamic boarding schools in communicating well politely community, whether they are older or younger than them. method used this activity is coaching carried out by lectures, discussions questions answers. This aimed at boomer Al-...

Family Location and Caregiving Patterns from an International Perspective This paper conducts a cross-national econometric analysis of intra-family location and caregiving patterns. First, we assess, from an international perspective, the relationship between family structure and the geographic proximity between adult children and their parents. We then examine whether differences in family str...

BACKGROUND Higher levels of frailty result in higher risks of adverse frailty outcomes such as hospitalisation and mortality. There are, however, indications that more factors than solely frailty play a role in the development of these outcomes. The presence of resources, e.g. sufficient income and good self-management abilities, might slow down the pathway from level of frailty to adverse outc...

This paper presents a model of partial observability applied to the childcare market in Britain. We simultaneously estimate the demand and use and calculate the excess demand for childcare. We find a large queue with nearly half of the mothers demanding childcare queuing for it. We also find that formal and informal care are not substitute, implying that policies increasing the supply of formal...