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Catherine J. Tompkins

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Aging Societies and Intergenerational Solidarity

2010

Due to an increased life expectancy—more people over 65 years old and never before seen numbers of older adults above 85—all countries around the world are nowadays facing rapid demographic changes...

ArcheologySociology and Political ScienceSocial PsychologyPolitical scienceDevelopment economicsIntergenerational solidaritysense organsGeriatrics and GerontologyLife-span and Life-course StudiesSocial Sciences (miscellaneous)Journal of Intergenerational Relationships
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Custodial Grandparents: The State of the Art and the Many Faces of this Contribution

2009

The number of grandparent-headed households has been growing steadily since the early seventies, and an even larger increase has been experienced by the number of children reared by their grandpare...

ArcheologySociology and Political ScienceSocial PsychologyState (polity)media_common.quotation_subjectGender studiesDemographic economicsSociologyGeriatrics and GerontologyLife-span and Life-course StudiesSocial Sciences (miscellaneous)Custodial grandparentsmedia_commonJournal of Intergenerational Relationships
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Intergenerational Caregiving. Young Auxiliary Caregivers

2010

In 2009, an estimated 737 million persons of the world population were older than 60. More than half of this older population, 54%, live in Asia, and one fifth, 21%, live in Europe. This number wil...

ArcheologyGeographySociology and Political ScienceSocial PsychologyWorld populationGeriatrics and GerontologyLife-span and Life-course StudiesSocial Sciences (miscellaneous)DemographyOlder populationJournal of Intergenerational Relationships
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