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| Gender differences in expressed satisfaction with care from adult children among older rural Yoruba | | Author(s) | Funmi Togonu-Bickersteth |
| Journal title | Southern African Journal of Gerontology, vol 6, no 1, April 1997 |
| Pages | pp 3-6 |
| Keywords | Family care ; Parents over 60 as carers ; Sons ; Daughters ; Older women ; Older men ; Attitude ; Nigeria. |
| Annotation | This paper examines the role of gender in the types of assistance received and the satisfaction expressed with the assistance by 30 older men and 30 older women in two rural Yoruba communities of Nigeria. Data were gathered through in-depth interviews. Results indicate that both groups received instrumental and non-instrumental support from adult children and that women were more frequently satisfied with the assistance. Both sexes reported greater satisfaction with assistance received from daughters than from sons. Older women's satisfaction with assistance from children was also associated with a positive evaluation of older age, whereas no such association was found for the males. The article concludes, in accordance with earlier studies, the centrality of adult women in family care and the important role of supportive adult children to older women's feelings of generativity and ego integrity. |
| Accession Number | CPA-971113234 A |
| Classmark | P6:SJ: P6:BB: SSA: SSH: BD: BC: DP: 7MT |
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