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| End-of-life co-residence of older parents and their sons in rural China | | Author(s) | Zhen Cong, Merril Silverstein |
| Journal title | Canadian Journal on Aging, vol 34, no 3, September 2015 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press, September 2015 |
| Pages | pp 331-341 |
| Source | journals.cambridge.org/cjg |
| Keywords | Living patterns ; Living with family ; Sons ; Family relationships ; Sons as carers ; Parents ; Rural areas ; Social surveys ; China. |
| Annotation | The authors examined how intergenerational exchanges with sons and daughters predicted older parents' likelihood of co-residing with a son prior to death in a rural area of China's Anhui Province. Their investigation drew on theories of contingent co-residence, modernisation, and social exchange. Co-residence was conceptualised as having practical and symbolic importance in rural Chinese culture. The sample included 470 older parents, reported as deceased during 2001-2009, and their posthumous informants. Logistic regression was used to assess intergenerational support and cohesion as predictors of co-residence with a son just prior to death. Older parents who provided instrumental support to, and received instrumental support from, sons and had better emotional relationships with sons were more likely than their counterparts to co-reside with a son at the end of life. Living with sons demonstrates filial piety for older parents at the end of life, but its realization is sensitive to intergenerational transactions. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-150918219 A |
| Classmark | K7: KA:SJ: SSA: DS:SJ: P6:SSA: SR: RL: 3F: 7DC |
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