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Changing family tradition: housing choices and constraints for older people in Japan
— paper prepared for British Society of Gerontology, annual conference, September 19-21 1997, Bristol | | Author(s) | Misa Izuhara |
| Corporate Author | Centre for Urban Studies, School for Policy Studies, University of Bristol; British Society of Gerontology - BSG |
| Publisher | unpublished, 1997 |
| Pages | 23 pp |
| Source | Misa Izuhara, Centre for Urban Studies, School for Policy Studies, University of Bristol, Rodney Lodge, Grange Road, Bristol BS8 4EA. |
| Keywords | Older women ; Housing [elderly] ; Living patterns ; Social characteristics [elderly] ; Family relationships ; Social surveys ; Japan. |
| Annotation | A rapidly ageing society and the accompanying changes in lifestyle have created new and greater demands on housing for older people in Japan. A recent increase in the numbers and proportions of elderly-only-households indicate that the traditional arrangement of extended family living is no longer the only housing option for Japanese people in later life. The main objective of this paper is to provide a quantitative analysis of the transformations in the housing choices and living arrangements of older women through the process of postwar modernisation in Japan. The paper also explores aspects of the transformation or weakening of intergenerational linkages in Japan. Current housing circumstances, economic status, family patterns and relations of older women are compared with past patterns. These issues are linked to the development of the postwar welfare system and the welfare circumstances of the prewar generation of women, particularly those who are currently disadvantaged. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-980331206 P |
| Classmark | BD: KE: K7: F: DS:SJ: 3F: 7DT * |
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