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Care and inheritance
— Japanese and English perspectives on the "generational contract" | | Author(s) | Misa Izuhara |
| Journal title | Ageing and Society, vol 22, part 1, January 2002 |
| Pages | pp 61-78 |
| Keywords | Owner occupied dwellings ; Assets [elderly] ; Family relationships ; Finance [care] ; Admission [nursing homes] ; Comparison ; Japan ; England. |
| Annotation | The changing nature and patterns of the "generational contract" are explored, with particular reference to the exchange of nursing care and housing assets between older parents and their adult children. Inheritance practices and attitudes are used to examine the ways in which socio-economic, demographic and policy changes have recently altered the conventional arrangements in Japanese society. The previously defined generational contract is now ambiguous, and the expectations and obligations of different family members are fragmented. Also discussed, is whether such practices in Japan are unique and the ways in which they differ from the English situation. Family obligations and inheritance have been more explicitly connected in the Japanese social and legal systems, while in England there is neither legal obligation to support older parents, nor any constraint on inheritance. This article elucidates the similarities and differences in the patterns of inheritance, and thus the exchange models between care and inheritance in the two societies. (KJ/RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-020610203 A |
| Classmark | KEA: JD: DS:SJ: QC: LHB:QKH: 48: 7DT: 82 |
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