Families in Ageing Societies A Multi-Disciplinary Approach [Hardcover]

This volume brings together academics from the UK, Europe, and the US, and from a broad spectrum of disciplinary backgrounds, to consider the implications of the demographic ageing of Western societies for intergenerational relationships and the family.

List of Contributors
Abbreviations
Introduction,Sarah Harper
1. The Challenge of Demographic Ageing for Families,Sarah Harper
2. Models of Kinship from the Developed World,Mike Murphy
3. One Happy Family? Sources of Intergenerational Solidarity and Tension As Contemporary U.S. Society Ages,W. Andrew Achenbaum
4. Availability and Supportive Functions of Extended Kinship Ties in Later Life: Evidence from the Berlin Ageing Study,Frieder R. Lang
5. Intergenerational Relationships among Stepfamilies in the UK,Brian Dimmock, Joanna Bornat, Sheila Peace and David Jones
6. Working Carers in the European Union,Robert Anderson
7. Family Support of Elderly People and Female Labor Supply: Trade-Offs among Caregiving, Financial Transfers, and Work--Evidence from U.S. Health and Retirement Survey,Richard W. Johnson and Anthony T. Lo Sasso
8. Social Care for Older People: The Growth of Independent-Sector Provision in the UK,Martin Knapp, Julien Forder, Jeremy Kendall and Linda Pickard
9. Inheritance and Intergenerational Relationships in English Families,Janet Finch
10. The American Family as a Context for Healthy Aging,Mary Elizabeth Hughes and Linda J. Waite
References
Author Index
Subject Index