Intergenerational Support and Old Age in Africa

ISBN-13: 9781138511026 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 222 str.

Isabella Aboderin

Opis

In most societies of the world, including in Africa, re- sponsibility for the material support of older people unable to sustain themselves through work or investments originally resided with their younger generational family members--especially their adult children

Spis treści

Acknowledgements, Introduction, Part I. Changing Intergenerational Support for Older People: Global Debates, Questions and Approaches, Part II. Case-Study: Nature, Causes and Consequences of Declines Material Old Age Family Support in Urban Ghana, Part III. Theorizing Links Between Societal Change and Intergenerational Support, and Implications for Policy, Bibliography, Index

O autorze

Isabella Aboderin