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| Older people from white-British and Asian-Indian backgrounds and their expectations for support from their children | | Author(s) | Chih Hoong Sin |
| Journal title | Quality in Ageing, vol 8, no 1, March 2007 |
| Pages | pp 31-41 |
| Source | http://www.pavpub.com |
| Keywords | White people ; Asian people ; Attitude ; Children [offspring] as carers ; Qualitative Studies ; Comparison. |
| Annotation | The importance of ties between older people and their children has been widely documented as a fundamental component in the provision and receipt of support. Most existing British research on the family support of older people has concentrated on those from the white-British majority, with little cross-group comparison. This article reports on in-depth qualitative research with 17 and 21 older people from white-British and Asian-Indian backgrounds respectively. It demonstrates how gender, ethnicity, migration history and a range of other factors interweave in complex manners to affect individuals' expectations for support from their adult children. The findings reveal commonalities and differences within and between groups and demonstrate that the association between expectations of support and resultant sense of well-being is complicated and is often conditional. Stereotypes within and across groups need to be examined, given the observation that white familial norms may be played out differently in different cultural contexts, individuals make sense of and rationalise their expectations to support to take into account the dynamics of changing structures and attitudes. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-070510220 A |
| Classmark | TKA: TKK: DP: P6:SS: 3DP: 48 |
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