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The family and community life of older people
— social networks and social support in three urban areas | | Author(s) | Chris Phillipson, Miriam Bernard, Judith Phillips, Jim Ogg |
| Corporate Author | (Economic and Social Research Council) ESRC Population and Household Change Research Programme, Oxford Brookes University |
| Publisher | ESRC, Oxford, June 1998 |
| Pages | 4 pp (Research results number 9) |
| Source | Professor Susan McRae, Programme Director, School of Social Sciences and Law, Oxford Brookes University, Gipsy Lane, Oxford OX3 0BP. |
| Keywords | Family relationships ; Family care ; Living in the community ; Social contacts ; Social surveys ; Redbridge ; Tower Hamlets ; Wolverhampton. |
| Annotation | Family life has changed rapidly in the last 50 years, bringing dramatic changes to the communities within which older people live. Research by the authors at the Department of Social Gerontology, University of Keele examined the extent of changes in older people's family and community networks in three urban areas of England: Bethnal Green, Wolverhampton and Woodford. These were the location of three major studies in the 1940s and 1950s: `The social medicine of old age' (J H Sheldon, 1948); `The family life of old people' (Peter Townsend, 1957); and `Family and class in a London suburb' (Peter Willmott and Michael Young, 1960). A social network approach was used to explore how households have changed, how relations have changed, and how the social worlds of older people have changed. The research suggests that kinship ties have stood up well to the large-scale changes in urban societies in the last 50 years. The family in some form is still central to support, even if focused on a small number of network members. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-980817002 P |
| Classmark | DS:SJ: P6:SJ: K4: TOA: 3F: 82LR: 82LV: 87A |
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