Will your child take care of you in your old age? Unequal caregiving received by older parents from adult children in Sweden.
Intergenerational family care provided to older parents by adult children is growing and differs based on gender and socioeconomic status. Few studies consider these elements in relation to both the parent and their adult child, and little is known about the number of care tasks received even though...
| Published in: | European Journal of Ageing Vol. 20; no. 1; pp. 1 - 14 |
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Springer Nature
Mar2023
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ssf&AN=162882879&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ssf uiTerm: 162882879 longDbName: Social Sciences Full Text (H.W. Wilson) uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 16139372 3RAL jtl: European Journal of Ageing issn: 16139372 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Mar2023 vid: 20 iid: 1 pid: 237 pub: Springer Nature artinfo: ui: 162882879 10.1007/s10433-023-00755-0 ppf: 1 ppct: 13 formats: fmt: – @attributes: type: T – @attributes: type: P size: 1.2MB tig: atl: Will your child take care of you in your old age? Unequal caregiving received by older parents from adult children in Sweden. aug: au: von Saenger, Isabelle Dahlberg, Lena Augustsson, Erika Fritzell, Johan Lennartsson, Carin affil: Aging Research Center, Karolinska Institutet and Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden School of Health and Welfare, Dalarna University, Falun, Sweden Swedish Institute for Social Research, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden keyword: Gender Informal caregiving Intergenerational caregiving Social class Socioeconomic inequalities Sweden Gender Informal caregiving Intergenerational caregiving Social class Socioeconomic inequalities Sweden ab: Intergenerational family care provided to older parents by adult children is growing and differs based on gender and socioeconomic status. Few studies consider these elements in relation to both the parent and their adult child, and little is known about the number of care tasks received even though those providing intensive levels of care are at risk of experiencing adverse consequences in their lives. This study uses data from the nationally representative 2011 Swedish Panel Study of Living Conditions of the Oldest Old (SWEOLD) and includes child-specific information from parents aged 76 years and above. Analyses used ordinal logistic regression and are presented as average marginal effects and predictive margins. Results show that parents in need of care report that one-third of all adult children in the sample provide care to three out of five of them. The care is most often non-intensive, yet nearly one in ten of all children provide more intensive care of two or more tasks. When adjusting for dyad characteristics as well as geographic proximity, results show adult–child gender differences where parents receive more care from manual-working-class daughters than manual-working-class sons. Overall, manual-working-class daughters are most commonly reported as carers among adult children, and they are particularly overrepresented in providing intensive care. We conclude that gender and socioeconomic inequalities exist among care receivers’ adult children, even in a strong welfare state such as Sweden. Knowledge about levels and patterns of intergenerational care have important implications for how to reduce unequal caregiving. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: N holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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