| |
Centre for Policy on Ageing | |
 | |
|
The social life and attitudes of 80 year olds in Iceland and Sweden
— a comparison of two city populations | | Author(s) | G Samuelsson, T Svensson, J E Jonson |
| Journal title | Hallym International Journal of Aging, vol 7, no 1, 2005 |
| Pages | pp 1-14 |
| Source | http://baywood.com |
| Keywords | Octogenarians ; Social characteristics [elderly] ; Attitude ; Urban areas ; Comparison ; Sweden ; Iceland. |
| Annotation | The 80+ Studies are collecting longitudinal data regarding medical, psychological and sociological aspects of 80-year-olds, 139 in Lund, Sweden and 151 in Reykjavik, Iceland. The Icelandic sample has a lower level of educational attainment, a higher ratio of working class background, a higher retirement age, a higher level of single participants, and more often received home health care. They also had fewer close friends, provided a lower level of support to their children, and to a lesser extent thought their income met their needs. The Swedish participants reported a higher divorce rate, a lower number of children, siblings and grandchildren, a higher level of satisfaction with family contacts, and a higher level of loneliness. Many significant differences concerning demographic and social network variables were found between the two samples. Possible macro-social and cultural explanations of the differences are discussed. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-070514221 A |
| Classmark | BBM: F: DP: RK: 48: 76P: 76R |
Data © Centre for Policy on Ageing |
|
| ...from the Ageinfo database published by Centre for Policy on Ageing. |
| |
|