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Families in Later Life - Emerging Themes & Challenges (Hardcover)
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Families in Later Life - Emerging Themes & Challenges (Hardcover)
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This book aims to help provide an understanding of the relationship
between the elderly generation and the multigenerational families
they belong to through an analysis of family and individual
development in later life and a study of the structural and
functional complexion of the multigenerational family (the basic
unit of analysis). The increase of life expectancy and the
consequent later ageing of the population is making Western
families undergo considerable changes. The demographic ageing of
societies is increasing the number of living generations and
decreasing the number of living relatives within these generations.
These ageing societies are also seeing a changing of some
traditional life-transitions, such as individuals delaying economic
independence from parents, marriage or long-term cohabitation, as
well as parenting. Themes discussed in this book are: 1.
multigenerational families are now commonplace in the western
countries; 2. legacies and inheritance are an important theme for
the integrity of families in later lives (since the increase of
welfare-states, the economic importance of inheritance decreases);
3. a substantial proportion of elderly persons and their families
live in poverty, having to deal with the diminishing of their
sensorial and physical capacities, as well as lower income and
higher medical expenses; 4. families have to combine the
care-giving of elderly relatives with the care-taking of their own
children and a professional career; 5. counselling becomes an
important factor for older adults since many families issue then
arise.
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