Research Catalog

Title

Ageing and the family : proceedings of the United Nations International Conference on Ageing Populations in the Context of the Family, Kitakyushu (Japan), 15-19 October 1990.

Publication

New York : United Nations, 1994.

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Details

Additional Authors

United Nations. Department for Economic and Social Information and Policy Analysis.

Description

xii, 238 p. : ill.; 28 cm.

Subjects

• Families > Congresses
• Older people > Social conditions > Congresses
• Older people > Family relationships > Congresses

Note

• At head of title: Department for Economic and Social Information and Policy Analysis.
• ST/ESA/SER.R/124.
• "United Nations publication sales No. E.94.XIII.4"--T.p. verso.

Contents

• Summary of the discussion and the papers -- The Kitakyushu declaration on population ageing in the context of the family and recommendations of the conference -- Ageing and the family in the context of western-type developed countries / Charlotte Hoḧn -- Ageing and the family in the developed countries and areas of Asia : continuities and transitions / Shigemi Kono -- Changing patterns of first marriage, divorce and remarriage in Europe and North America / Miroslav Macura, Edith Adams and Dorota Holzer-Zelazewska -- The changing role of the family in meeting the needs of the ageing population in the developing countries, with particular focus on Eastern Africa / Shanyisa Khasiani -- Family support for the elderly in Latin America : the role of the multigenerational household / Luiz R. Ramos -- Ageing and the family in the developing Asian and Pacific countries / Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific -- Overview of recent research findings on population ageing and the family / United Nations Secretariat -- Household approaches to the analysis of population ageing / George J. Stolnitz --
• Marital-status dynamics at older ages / George C. Myers -- Implications of being divorced in later life / Peter Uhlenberg -- Residential mobility through the life course and proximity of family members to elderly people / Anthony M. Warnes -- Elderly migration and its implications for changes in household composition in Japan / Atsushi Otomo -- Ageing rural populations in the developing countries : patterns, determinants and implications / Alain Marcoux -- Co-residence with an aged parent : lifetime patterns and sensitivity to demographic change / Douglas A. Wolf -- A comparative study on changes in Chinese families, urban and rural / Zeng Yi and Cai Wenmei -- The changing balance of young and old : Norwegian families in the post-war era / Gunhild Hagestad -- Ageing and the problem of generations : prospects for a new generational contract / Vern L. Bengtson -- Family structure and gender roles in ageing populations / Frances K. Goldscheider -- Family changes and ageing in Japan / Yuzo Yabuno --
• Transfers from parents to their adult children in the developed and the developing countries / Mark R. Rosenzweig -- Ageing, household formation and the housing market / John Ermisch -- Declining family care versus expanding public services : a study of social and legal aspects in Japan / Daisaku Maeda -- Changing needs for public support to families caring for the elderly / Naohiro Ogawa -- A comparative study on family care for the elderly : Shanghai and Tokyo / Yutaka Shimizu -- Implications of increasing roles of women for the provision of elderly care / Mercedes B. Concepcioń.

Call Number

JBF 95-666

ISBN

9211512611

LCCN

94205316

OCLC

30762568

Title

Ageing and the family : proceedings of the United Nations International Conference on Ageing Populations in the Context of the Family, Kitakyushu (Japan), 15-19 October 1990.

Imprint

New York : United Nations, 1994.

Added Author

United Nations. Department for Economic and Social Information and Policy Analysis.

Research Call Number

JBF 95-666