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AUTHOR
Catherine J. Tompkins
Aging Societies and Intergenerational Solidarity
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...
Custodial Grandparents: The State of the Art and the Many Faces of this Contribution
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...
Intergenerational Caregiving. Young Auxiliary Caregivers
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...