Elisabeth Schröder-Butterfill,Ruly Marianti
Elisabeth Schröder-Butterfill
Elisabeth Schröder-Butterfill
Elisabeth Schröder-Butterfill
Most social research on ageing in Asia has focused on the support provided by adult children to their parents, and thereby suggests that as a matter of course older people are in need of support. This paper offers a different perspective. D...
Care robots for the supermarket shelf: a product gap in assistive technologies [0.03%]
关爱型机器人进入超市货架：辅助技术产品的空白？
Tim Blackman
Tim Blackman
The literature on the development of assistive robots is dominated by technological papers with little consideration of how such devices might be commercialised for a mass market at a price that is affordable for older people and their fami...
Why are the oldest old less generous? Explanations for the unexpected age-related drop in charitable giving [0.03%]
为何高龄老人较少行善？出人意料的慈善捐款随年龄增长而下降的原因分析
Pamala Wiepking,Russell N James rd
Pamala Wiepking
Previous research has demonstrated that the generally positive relationship between age and the presence of charitable giving becomes negative at the oldest ages. We investigate potential causes of this drop in charitable giving among the o...
The inter-relationship between formal and informal care: a study in France and Israel [0.03%]
法国和以色列的正式护理与非正式护理之间的相互关系研究
Howard Litwin,Claudine Attias-Donfut
Howard Litwin
This study examined whether formal care services delivered to frail older people's homes in France and Israel substitute for or complement informal support. The two countries have comparable family welfare systems but many historical, cultu...
The development of culturally-sensitive measures for research on ageing [0.03%]
具有文化敏感性的老龄化研究测量方法的开发
Berit Ingersoll-Dayton
Berit Ingersoll-Dayton
Attempts to import existing measures developed in other countries when constructing research instruments for use with older people can result in several problems including inappropriate wording, unsuitable response sets, and insufficient at...
The impact of informal care-giving networks on adult children's care-giver burden [0.03%]
非正式照护网络对子女照护负担的影响分析
Natalia Tolkacheva,Marjolein Broese VAN Groenou,Alice DE Boer et al.
Natalia Tolkacheva et al.
Previous research on the care-giver burden experienced by adult children has typically focused on the adult child and parent dyad. This study uses information on multiple informal care-givers and examines how characteristics of the informal...
A Descriptive Analysis of Religious Involvement Among Older Adults In Japan [0.03%]
日本老年人宗教参与现状的描述性分析
Neal Krause,Jersey Liang,Joan Bennett et al.
Neal Krause et al.
The purpose of this study was to conduct a descriptive analysis of multiple dimensions of religion with data provided by a nationwide sample of older people in Japan. Six dimensions of religion were evaluated: Religious affiliation, involve...
Sarah R Brauner-Otto
Sarah R Brauner-Otto
Intergenerational transfers play an important role in individuals' lives across the life course. In this paper I pull together theories on intergenerational transfers and social change to inform our understanding of how changes in the educa...