Pathways to grandparents’ provision of care in skipped-generation households in Thailand

2017 ◽  
Vol 38 (7) ◽  
pp. 1429-1452 ◽  
Author(s):  
BERIT INGERSOLL-DAYTON ◽  
SUREEPORN PUNPUING ◽  
KANCHANA TANGCHONLATIP ◽  
LAURA YAKAS
Keyword(s):  
Adult Children ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Living Arrangements ◽  
Living Arrangement ◽  
Phenomenological Approach ◽  
Care Giving ◽  
The Family ◽  
The World ◽  
Interpretative Phenomenological Approach ◽  
Provision Of Care

ABSTRACTIn many parts of the world, grandparents live with their grandchildren in ‘skipped-generation households’ in which no parent resides. In Thailand, this living arrangement is more common in rural areas where parents often migrate to find employment. The focus of this article is on how grandparents make the decision to live in skipped-generation households. Our study is based upon open-ended interviews with 48 grandparents who lived in three rural areas of Thailand. Using an interpretative phenomenological approach, the analysis uncovers several factors that contribute to grandparents’ decisions about their living arrangements. These factors include: norms about care-giving and family obligation, inadequate child-care options, the need for financial support, problematic relationships within the family and a desire for companionship. We also identify three different decision-making patterns: grandparents initiating the decision to provide grandchild care, adult children asking grandparents to assume this role and adult children abandoning grandchildren to the grandparents. Based upon these findings, we provide implications for practice that address the conditions of grandparents and their family members.

scholarly journals The impact of living arrangements and intergenerational support on the health status of older people in China: are rural residents disadvantaged compared to urban residents?

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-26
Author(s):  
Yazhen Yang ◽  
Maria Evandrou ◽  
Athina Vlachantoni
Keyword(s):  
Life Satisfaction ◽  
Older People ◽  
Adult Children ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Living Arrangements ◽  
Psychological Wellbeing ◽  
Urban Residents ◽  
Intergenerational Support ◽  
Rural Residents ◽  
The Impact

Abstract Research to-date has examined the impact of intergenerational support in terms of isolated types of support, or at one point in time, failing to provide strong evidence of the complex effect of support on older persons’ wellbeing. Using the Harmonised China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (2011, 2013 and 2015), this paper investigates the impact of older people's living arrangements and intergenerational support provision/receipt on their physical and psychological wellbeing, focusing on rural–urban differences. The results show that receiving economic support from one's adult children was a stronger predictor for higher life satisfaction among rural residents compared to urban residents, while grandchild care provision was an important determinant for poor life satisfaction only for urban residents. Having weekly in-person and distant contact with one's adult children reduced the risk of depression in both rural and urban residents. Older women were more likely than men to receive support and to have contact with adult children, but also to report poor functional status and depression. The paper shows that it is important to improve the level of public economic transfers and public social care towards vulnerable older people in rural areas, and more emphasis should be placed on improving the psychological wellbeing of urban older residents, such as with the early diagnosis of depression.

How left behind are rural parents of migrant children? Evidence from Thailand

2010 ◽  
Vol 30 (5) ◽  
pp. 811-841 ◽  
Author(s):  
JOHN KNODEL ◽  
JIRAPORN KESPICHAYAWATTANA ◽  
CHANPEN SAENGTIENCHAI ◽  
SUVINEE WIWATWANICH
Keyword(s):  
Adult Children ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Living Arrangements ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Extended Family ◽  
Age Groups ◽  
Social Contact ◽  
Migrant Children ◽  
Older Parents ◽  
Economic Changes

ABSTRACTThe consequences of adult children's migration from rural areas for older parents who remain behind are keenly debated. While the mass media and international advocacy organisations favour an ‘alarmist’ view of desertion, the academic literature makes more sanguine assessments using the ‘household strategy’ and ‘modified extended family’ perspectives. We examine the relationship between the migration of adult children and various dimensions of older parents' wellbeing in Thailand using evidence from a survey that focused on the issues. The results provide little support for the alarmist view, but instead suggest that parents and adult children adapt to the social and economic changes associated with development in ways not necessarily detrimental to intergenerational relations. The migration of children, especially to urban areas, often benefits parents' material support while the recent spread of cell phones has radically increased their ability to maintain social contact. Nevertheless, changing living arrangements through increased migration and the smaller family sizes of the youngest age groups of older people pose serious challenges for aspects of filial support, especially at advanced ages when chronic illness and frailty require long-term personal care. Dealing with this emerging situation in a context of social, economic and technological change is among the most critical issues facing those concerned with the implications of rapid population ageing in Thailand and elsewhere.

Village senior centres and the living arrangements of older people in rural China: considerations of health, land, migration and intergenerational support

2016 ◽  
Vol 37 (10) ◽  
pp. 2044-2073 ◽  
Author(s):  
HUIJUN LIU ◽  
KAREN N. EGGLESTON ◽  
YAN MIN
Keyword(s):  
Older People ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Living Arrangements ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Independent Living ◽  
Rural China ◽  
Living Arrangement ◽  
Population Ageing ◽  
Intergenerational Support ◽  
North East

ABSTRACTChina is experiencing rapid urbanisation and population ageing, alongside sometimes contentious rural land consolidation. These on-going social, economic, political and demographic changes are especially problematic for older people in rural areas. In these regions, social and institutional support arrangements are less developed than in urban areas; older people have few options for re-settlement but are resistant to or incapable of adjusting to high-rise apartment living. In 2012–13, we gathered rich qualitative and quantitative data on over 600 older residents in 12 villages under the jurisdiction of City L in north-east coastal China to analyse residents’ living arrangement choices during the village renovation process. We compared villages with and without senior centres to shed light on the correlates of co-residence and independent living. Senior centres play a role in balancing the burden on rural Chinese families resulting from population ageing, smaller families, widespread migration for work, and the rapid urbanisation that is restructuring land rights and social support arrangements.

scholarly journals Actions of the nurse to the patient with a mental disorder

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. e15510110385
Author(s):  
Aline de Sousa Rocha ◽  
Benedita Maryjose Gleyk Gomes ◽  
Roberta Sousa Meneses ◽  
Marcos Antonio Silva Batista ◽  
Rosane Cristina Mendes Gonçalves ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Disorders ◽  
Mental Disorder ◽  
Nursing Care ◽  
Temporal Analysis ◽  
Social Reintegration ◽  
The Family ◽  
The World ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Provision Of Care ◽  
The Relationship

The psychiatric reform that took place in Brazil carries characteristics of other movements that occurred in other parts of the world. The idea common to all movements is the struggle for the rights of the individual in mental suffering, seeking mainly the rupture of the mental model. These changes led to several transformations in the care scenario, for all professions directly linked to the patient. Nursing in turn has experienced and experiences significant changes in the provision of care. The aim of this study is to talk about nursing care for patients affected by mental disorder, making a temporal analysis of how this care occurred and how it presents itself in the current mental health conjuncture. The methodology is of the literature review type, which occurred through research in the databases BIREME, Lilacs, Scielo, BDENF and VHL. For this, the descriptors: nursing care for people with disorders were selected; nursing care for patients with mental disorders. In view of the results, it was evidenced that nurses are an important part of caring for patients with mental disorders, noting that these make up a multidisciplinary team and highlighting that care goes far beyond just caring for the patient, but that it consists mainly in the relationship with the patient's family, in bonding, in the work that aims at social reintegration and often also the family reinsertion of the individual. Profession that needs to undergo constant updates, but has experienced numerous transformations throughout this period of Reformation.

scholarly journals The Impact of Living Arrangements and Intergenerational Support on the Health Status of Older People in China

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. 796-796
Author(s):  
Yazhen Yang ◽  
Maria Evandrou ◽  
Athina Vlachantoni
Keyword(s):  
Life Satisfaction ◽  
Older People ◽  
Adult Children ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Living Arrangements ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Intergenerational Support ◽  
Rural And Urban Areas ◽  
The Impact

Abstract Research to-date has examined the impact of intergenerational support in terms of isolated types of support, or at one point in time, failing to provide strong evidence of the complex effect of support on older persons’ wellbeing. Using the Harmonised China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (2011, 2013 and 2015), this paper investigates the impact of older people’s living arrangements and intergenerational support provision/ receipt on their physical and psychological wellbeing, focusing on rural/ urban differences. The results show that receiving economic support from one’s adult children was a stronger predictor for higher life satisfaction among older rural residents compared to those in urban areas, while grandchild care provision was an important determinant for poor life satisfaction only for older urban residents. Receiving informal care from one’s adult children was associated with a poor (I)ADL functional status and with depressive symptoms among older rural people. Meanwhile, having weekly in-person and distant contact reduced the risk of depression among older people in both rural and urban areas. The paper shows that it is important to improve the level of public economic transfers and public social care towards vulnerable older people in rural areas, and more emphasis should be placed on improving the psychological well-being of urban older residents, such as with the early diagnosis of depression.

Care-giving dynamics and futures planning among ageing parents of adult offspring with intellectual disability

2018 ◽  
Vol 39 (7) ◽  
pp. 1512-1527 ◽  
Author(s):  
RUTH WALKER ◽  
CLAIRE HUTCHINSON
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual Disability ◽  
Adult Children ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Theoretical Perspective ◽  
Older Parents ◽  
Supported Accommodation ◽  
Care Giving ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Future ◽  
Family Home

ABSTRACTThe number of older parents ageing in tandem with their adult children with intellectual disability (ID) is increasing. This unique situation calls for greater research that investigates how older parents experience this extended care-giving role, including the extent to which they are engaging in futures planning. Participants were recruited via disability service providers in South Australia. Using the theoretical perspective of hermeneutic phenomenology to understand lived experiences, semi-structured in-depth interviews were carried out with older parents (N = 17, mean age 70 years). Six offspring were living in the family home while the remainder were in supported accommodation. Main themes to emerge from the data were: (a) perpetual parenting, (b) costs and rewards and (c) planning to plan. Parents were providing care across a range of areas, regardless of whether their offspring lived at home or in supported accommodation. While aware of the need to plan for the future, most did not have a firm plan in place. Parents are providing a high level of support to their adult children with ID regardless of whether they live in supported accommodation or the family home. While some have started to think about future care arrangements, most appear unclear over what the future holds.

scholarly journals Greater Risk of Negative Health Outcomes of Older Adults Living Alone in Vietnam: A Community Survey

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (21) ◽  
pp. 11115
Author(s):  
Man Thi Hue Vo ◽  
Keiko Nakamura ◽  
Kaoruko Seino ◽  
Thang Van Vo
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
Health Outcomes ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Living Arrangements ◽  
Fear Of Falling ◽  
Living Arrangement ◽  
Community Survey ◽  
Living Alone ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Solitary Living

In modern Asian societies, there has been a shift in the living arrangements of older adults away from living with others. Knowing the health characteristics of individuals living alone can help identify high-risk groups. This cross-sectional study aimed to describe characteristics of the Vietnamese older adults and to investigate the association between living alone and their reported health outcomes by utilizing survey data of individuals aged ≥60 years in Vietnam in 2018. The community survey included questions about sociodemographic factors, living arrangement, and self-reported physical functional status. Multivariate logistic regression was used to examine whether or not living alone was a predictor of health outcomes. Of 725 study participants, 8.9% lived alone. These participants were more likely to be female, aged 70–79 years, living in rural areas, and currently single or previously married. After adjusting for covariates, older adults who were living alone were more likely to have arthritis (adjusted odds ratio [AOR] = 1.95, 95% confidence interval [CI]: 1.10–3.45), a history of falling (AOR = 2.44, 95% CI: 1.02–5.82), visual difficulties (AOR = 1.89, 95% CI: 1.04–3.41), feelings of loneliness (AOR = 1.95, 95% CI: 1.10–3.47), and high fear of falling (AOR = 1.88, 95% CI: 1.02–3.46). Older adults living alone in Vietnam were at greater risk of negative health consequences than those living with others. Screening and providing adequate social support for this specific population is important in preventing the adverse effects of solitary living among these older adults.

THE PHENOMENON OF "SUBSTITUTE PERCEPTION": PHILOSOPHICAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL JUSTIFICATION

2020 ◽  
pp. 29-40
Author(s):  
Eugenia E. Krieger ◽  
◽  
Galina A. Mishina ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Family System ◽  
Phenomenological Approach ◽  
Psychological Practice ◽  
Psychological Conditions ◽  
The Family ◽  
The World ◽  
Scientific Environment

The article is devoted to the philosophical and psychological substantiation of the phenomenon of “substitute perception”. The phenomenon of “substitute perception” has long been used in practices based on the system-phenomenological approach, but until now it has not been explained in the scientific environment. The main objectives of this work are: to present methodological grounds for explaining the phenomenon of “substitute perception”, to describe the mechanisms that provide it, and to identify socio-psychological conditions that lead to a greater probability of manifestation of this phenomenon. The novelty of the work is represented not only by the research objectives, but also by the approach used for its construction. The approach was based on the ideas of post-classical psychology presented in systems psychology. The phenomenon of “substitute perception” is considered within the system regulation that occurs between the world of the client and the substitute representing its members of the family system. The article shows the mechanisms of the phenomenon of substitution perception, describes how these mechanisms function in conditions of systemic determination and lead to the emergence of experiences that are not peculiar to the person experiencing them. The main mechanisms that provide this regulation are anticipation and intuition. The article reveals the conditions that contribute to a more likely occurrence of the phenomenon of “substitute perception”. The results obtained in this work allow us to draw scientific grounds for the phenomenon of “substitute perception” and use it in a wide psychological practice.

scholarly journals Reason for the Family Doing Confinement on People with Mental Disorders

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 277-284
Author(s):  
Nining Wuri Lestari ◽  
Setyawati Soeharto ◽  
Heni Dwi Windarwati
Keyword(s):  
Data Analysis ◽  
Mental Disorders ◽  
Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis ◽  
Phenomenological Approach ◽  
Phenomenological Analysis ◽  
The Family ◽  
Interpretative Phenomenological Approach ◽  
Depth Interviews

The number of retention is still high in Indonesia to find out the reasons for the family doing confinement on people with mental disorders in Trenggalek Regency. This research is a qualitative with an interpretative phenomenological approach. Data were obtained through in-depth interviews with twelve families who treated people with post-pasung mental disorders in Trenggalek Regency. Data analysis using IPA (Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis), obtained four themes namely feeling frustrated with the patient's condition, feeling annoyed because of the patient's disobedience, the helplessness of the family doing something, bored because there is no meaningful development in the patient the family put up on people with mental disorders because they feel frustrated and helpless to face the patient's condition.

scholarly journals Living Arrangements of Mothers and Their Adult Children Over the Life Course

2016 ◽  
Vol 39 (1) ◽  
pp. 111-134 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emily E. Wiemers ◽  
Vladislav Slanchev ◽  
Kathleen McGarry ◽  
V. Joseph Hotz
Keyword(s):  
Life Course ◽  
Adult Children ◽  
Parental Support ◽  
Living Arrangements ◽  
Elderly Women ◽  
Living Arrangement ◽  
Panel Study ◽  
Income Dynamics ◽  
The Life Course ◽  
The Relationship

Early in the last century, it was commonplace for elderly women to live with their adult children. Over time, the prevalence of this type of living arrangement declined, as incomes increased. In more recent decades, coresidence between adult children and their retirement-age parents has become more common, as children rely on parental support later into adulthood. We use panel data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics to examine the living arrangements of older mothers and their adult children over the life course. We pay particular attention to the relationship between coresidence and indicators of parental and child needs. Our results suggest that for much of the life course, coresidence serves to benefit primarily the adult children rather than their older mother. We also highlight a little known phenomenon, that of children who never leave the parental home and remain coresident well into their later adult years.

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