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Blog: People ageing without children or family out of sight, out of mind.
The Age Action Alliance, 2023
In the Western world, childlessness affects one in four men and one in five women. In the UK the numbers of people ageing without children aged over 65 years is projected to rise to above 2 million by 2030. Although precarity in ageing is increasingly recognised in academia, people ageing without children are not acknowledged as a group and dismissed as a ‘non-category.’ This means they are in danger of being invisible to academia, policymakers and other institutional stakeholders.
International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine, 2001
While popular wisdom would have us believe that family caregiving for frail older people was more widespread in society at the tum of the twentieth century than the twenty-ftrst, the case is otherwise in Australia, as in other countries of the New World and most of Europe. At the first census held in Australia, in the state of Victoria in 1901, only 4% of the population was aged 65 years and over. Being still a largely immigrant society, most young families did not have older members to care for, and extensive analyses of family formation and demographic processes made by points to three other factors that limited the potential for family support of older members of the community.
2000
A dults typically grow old within multigenerational families. Ties with relatives are mostly positive experiences that supply companionship, provide numerous forms of support, and lend meaning to life. Of course, close relationships can include conflict and distress, as well. This chapter is introductory to the rest of the volume on interventions aimed at problematic aspects of late-life family ties. It sets the stage for the other discussions by focusing on the diversity of older adults ' family structures and interactions. First is a detailed look at the definition of family for elderly persons, including illustrations of a range of family structures. Next is information about different types of old-age family ties. The final section addresses numerous personal, sociocultural, and historical influences on the nature of family interactions in the later years of life.
Intergenerational Family Relationships In Ageing Societies
2010
Preface In the region of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE), population ageing is the dominant demographic trend of this century. Simultaneously, other pertinent demographic developments such as declining fertility, increasing age at family formation, and changing family patterns also challenge many areas of public policy. The policy responses have to include reconciliation of work and family life
The avoided and excluded knowns: people ageing without children/family.
Medium, 2023
In the Western world, childlessness affects one in four men and one in five women. In the UK the numbers of people ageing without children aged over 65 years is projected to rise to above 2 million by 2030. Although precarity in ageing is increasingly recognised in academia, people ageing without children are not acknowledged as a group and dismissed as a ‘non-category’ (1, 2). This means they are in danger of being invisible to academia, policymakers and other institutional stakeholders.
Family, caring and ageing in the United Kingdom
Scandinavian Journal of Caring Sciences, 2005
Family, caring and ageing in the United Kingdom This paper provides a critical exploration of the assumptions and narratives underpinning the development of social policy initiatives targeting caring relationships based upon family ties. Using a narrative approach attention is drawn to the ways in which family identities are open to a far greater range of negotiation than is assumed by policy. Drawing on the United Kingdom as a case example, questions are posed about intergenerational relations and the nature of late life citizenship. The comparatively recent invention of narratives supporting 'informal care' and the link with neo-liberal and 'third way' notions of active citizenship are explored. As is the failure of policy developments to take into account the diversity of care giving styles and the complexity of caring relationships. It is argued that the uneven and locally specific ways in which policy develops enables the co-existence of a complex range of narratives about family, caring and ageing which address diverse aspects of the family life of older people in often contradictory ways.
Australian Journal of Social Issues, 1984
The ‘graying’ of Australia's population has generated much debate within government, demographic, health and social service circles in recent times. Current and projected shifts in population structure towards greater numbers of ‘dependent’ populations raise a number of complex issues in regard to resource allocation in both income support and service provision. Service issues revolve around questions of whether public or private provision will resolve the care issues for dependent elderly people. It is argued that contrary to popular opinion, family care is well entrenched within the framework of social care, and that the solution of community care, posited in relation to the rising levels of chronic illness and dependency within the elderly population, is actually an attempt to place more responsibility of care on to the family. It is further suggested that family care is, in fact, care by women who themselves are in a state of dependency. Citing evidence from a study conducte...