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Informal exchanges with non-kin among retired sunbelt migrants
— a case study of a Finnish American retirement community | | Author(s) | Eleanor Palo Stoller |
| Journal title | The Journals of Gerontology Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, vol 53B, no 5, September 1998 |
| Pages | pp S287-S298 |
| Keywords | Social interaction ; Expatriates ; Finland ; Retirement communities ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | The impact of ethnic enclaves in generating exchanges of instrumental assistance and emotional support among older European Americans is examined. Data were collected through interviews with four samples of elders: Finnish Americans who migrated to an ethnic retirement community in Florida; European Americans who migrated to the same community but are not part of an ethnic enclave; Finnish Americans living in an age-integrated setting in Minnesota; and retired European Americans living in the same Minnesota community. Migrants were less likely than elders ageing-in-place to report informal exchanges with non-kin. Finnish American migrants were less likely than other European Americans to provide instrumental assistance to non-kin, but were more likely to anticipate relying on informal long-term care support, regardless of proximity to kin. There were no differences in the two migrant samples in exchanges of emotional support. Evidence regarding substitution of non-kin for geographically distant kin is mixed. Results are consistent with a strategy of "banking" support, at the community level among Finnish American migrants and at the network level among other European American migrants. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-010117214 A |
| Classmark | TMA: TIP: 76L: ROA: 7T |
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