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Intergenerational coresidence of older adults in Japan
— conditions for cultural plasticity | | Author(s) | Emiko Takagi, Merril Silverstein, Eileen Crimmins |
| Journal title | Journals of Gerontology: Series B, Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, vol 62B, no 5, September 2007 |
| Pages | pp S330-S339 |
| Source | http://www.geron.org |
| Keywords | Living with family ; Multi generation families ; Japan. |
| Annotation | Using data for 5363 individuals from the Nihon University Japanese Longitudinal Study of Aging. (NUJLSOA) and information on socioeconomic and welfare characteristics of Japanese prefectures, the authors looked at different styles of intergenerational co-residence arrangements. Whereas the traditional pattern of co-residence was primarily a value-driven arrangement, non-traditional co-residence was both a value-driven and a need driven arrangement for older parents with limited physical abilities. Relatively strong economic conditions at the prefecture level were enabling factors for co-residence, whereas the greater per capita utilisation of local welfare resources had both enabling and inhibiting effects on co-residence arrangements. The differences between the two types of co-residence are consistent with a shift of intergenerational living arrangements in Japan from a preventive arrangement for older parents in need. The authors suggest that the intergenerational family traditions contain a great deal of plasticity to accommodate societal modernisation by adapting to the changing cultural and socioeconomic contexts of the society. (RH) |
| Accession Number | CPA-080307206 A |
| Classmark | KA:SJ: SJC: 7DT |
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