The challenge for families of demographic ageing / Sarah Harper -- Models of kinship from the developed world / Mike Murphy -- One happy family? Sources of intergenerational solidarity and tension as contemporary US society ages / W. Andrew Achenbaum -- The availability and supportive functions of extended kinship ties in later life : evidence from the Berlin Ageing Study / Frieder R. Lang -- Intergenerational relationships among stepfamilies in the UK / Brian Dimmock [and others] -- Working carers in the European Union / Robert Anderson -- Family support of the elderly and female labour supply : trade-offs among caregiving, financial transfers, and work--evidence from the US Health and Retirement Survey / Richard W. Johnson and Anthony T. Lo Sasso -- Social care for older people : the growth of independent-sector provision in the UK / Martin Knapp [and others] -- Inheritance and intergenerational relationships in English families / Janet Finch -- The American family as a context for healthy ageing / Mary Elizabeth Hughes and Linda J. Waite
Summary
This work provides a multi-disciplinary approach to families in an ageing society. It will be useful to scholars and students of sociology, politics, demography, and social and health policy
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 190-206) and indexes
