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| Family relationships of older, rural women: stability and change | | Author(s) | Jean Pearson Scott |
| Journal title | Journal of Women & Aging, vol 10, no 4, 1998 |
| Pages | pp 67-80 |
| Source | http://www.tandfonline.com |
| Keywords | Older women ; Family relationships ; Rural areas ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | The purpose of this study was to examine stability and change in family interaction patterns (availability, interaction, and assistance) of older rural women as they moved from young-old to late old age. A total of 96 women were interviewed at two times, twelve years apart. Although there were family network losses, most notably loss of spouse and siblings, family availability and contact showed more stability than change. By late old age, the women were receiving significantly more help from adult children relative to what they gave. Proximity of the adult child was most salient as predictor of help received from children at both times 1 and 2. Quality of the adult child relationship was higher for women who received more types of help from adult children at time 2. The findings suggest that with loss of family members, proximate kin may take up the slack in providing support to rural older women of advanced age. (AKM). |
| Accession Number | CPA-990326404 A |
| Classmark | BD: DS:SJ: RL: 7T |
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