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| Community attitudes toward living arrangements between the elderly and their adult children in Hong Kong | | Author(s) | Tai-pong Lam, Iris Chi, Leon Piterman |
| Journal title | Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology, vol 13, no 3, 1998 |
| Pages | pp 215-228 |
| Keywords | Living with family ; Parents ; Children [offspring] ; Neighbourhoods, communities etc ; Attitude ; Hong Kong. |
| Annotation | In a random sample of some 900 adult Hong Kong residents, nearly 59% preferred to live with their children, if non-disabled. However, 43.5% would be unlikely to want to live with their children if disabled. If non disabled at 60, females, professionals or those who had lived overseas before, preferred not to live with their children. Females also preferred not to live with their children if disabled at 60. Other factors, such as age, social class, education level and experience in living with or looking after older people had no effect on respondents' preferences. The attitudes studied will shed light on the provision of housing and institutional care to older people, as well as on the family relationship and care patterns in communities undergoing rapid growth and "Westernisation". (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-990518213 A |
| Classmark | KA:SJ: SR: SS: RH: DP: 7DR |
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