Abstract Objective We investigated grandparents' motivations and challenges for grandparent–grandchild outdoor play with their 3‐ to 5‐year‐old grandchildren. Background Outdoor benefits children's older persons' mental physical health. Thus, intergenerational could benefit both grandparents younger Method Semistructured interviews were conducted 14 (seven grandmothers seven grandfathers) from ...

We report a case of Pneumocystis jirovecii transmission from colonized grandparents to their infant granddaughter. Genotyping of P. jirovecii showed the same genotypes in samples from the infant and her grandparents. These findings support P. jirovecii transmission from immunocompetent carrier adults to a susceptible child.

AIMS Cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) have been related to low birth weight, suggesting the foetal environment may program future risk. Alternatively, common genetic factors for both low birth weight and CVD could explain such associations. We investigated associations between offspring birth weight and paternal and maternal cardiovascular mortality and offspring birth weight and cardiovascular m...

OBJECTIVES This study assesses whether grandchildren's moving into or out of grandparents' households affects grandparents' depressive symptoms and life satisfaction, and whether such effects vary by gender or race. It further examines whether effects of surrogate parenting on grandparents' subjective well-being are direct or mediated through the impact of surrogate parenting on other life chan...

Older persons face an array of challenges with regard to parenting a delinquent grandchild. The study adopted qualitative approach the use explorative and descriptive design, data collected from in-depth interviews grandparents, communities probation officers. also phenomenology as specific research approach. Findings revealed that grandparents their grandchildren pernicious experiences grandch...

Low birth rates in developed societies reflect women's difficulties in combining work and motherhood. While demographic research has focused on the role of formal childcare in easing this dilemma, evolutionary theory points to the importance of kin. The cooperative breeding hypothesis states that the wider kin group has facilitated women's reproduction during our evolutionary history. This mech...

Abstract Background It is common for older people to become grandparents in later life. However, the impacts of grandparenting on their health and well-being remain ambiguous, especially Chinese society, where family core culture. The current study explored relationship between grandparenthood people’s psychological Hong Kong. Methods Cross-sectional data were collected from a sample 1208 Kong ...

Older adults view contact with family as being worthy of time and dedication, and show a preference for „heavyweight‟ forms of contact. In contrast, younger generations are increasingly adopting lightweight communication technologies. Preliminary findings from the deployment of a lightweight messaging device show that while the flexibility that it afforded facilitated direct contact between gra...

Briggs was born 10 December 1911 in Watertown, Massachusetts. He was raised by his grandparents, as both his mother and brother died of tuberculosis before Briggs was two years old. He lived with his grandparents until 1929 when he left for college. Briggs described his aunt's lessons on the family piano as one of his most lasting boyhood experiences. Even though he would eventually stop playin...