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Social support in later life
— a study of three areas | | Author(s) | Judith Phillips, Miriam Bernard, Chris Phillipson |
| Journal title | British Journal of Social Work, vol 30, no 6, December 2000 |
| Pages | pp 837-854 |
| Keywords | Informal care ; Family relationships ; Social contacts ; Social surveys ; Tower Hamlets ; Wolverhampton ; Redbridge. |
| Annotation | The research reported examines older people's family and community networks in three urban areas: Bethnal Green, Wolverhampton and Woodford. These were locations for major studies in the 1940s and 1950s. Four decades on, a social network approach was used to explore changes in social relationships in these three areas. The research sought to assess whom older people identified as "important" in their lives, and the role such people provided in their social network when looking for support. It found that respondents do not mobilise the whole of their social network when looking for support, rather they draw mainly immediate family and locally available friends. This is a change from the original Wolverhampton and Bethnal Green studies, although consistent with the significance of friendship highlighted in the original Woodford study. The paper reports evidence of older people being active in reciprocal exchanges across their networks on health issues, less so on instrumental support such as household chores, transport and financial advice. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-010221202 A |
| Classmark | P6: DS:SJ: TOA: 3F: 82LV: 87A: 82LR |
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