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CHILDLESSNESS AND SOCIAL SUPPORT IN OLD AGE: A LITERATURE REVIEW

The result's identifiers

  • Result code in IS VaVaI

    <a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11310%2F19%3A10393805" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11310/19:10393805 - isvavai.cz</a>

  • Result on the web

    <a href="https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=MjbQ0EpWq5" target="_blank" >https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=MjbQ0EpWq5</a>

  • DOI - Digital Object Identifier

    <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.23979/fypr.77931" target="_blank" >10.23979/fypr.77931</a>

Alternative languages

  • Result language

    angličtina

  • Original language name

    CHILDLESSNESS AND SOCIAL SUPPORT IN OLD AGE: A LITERATURE REVIEW

  • Original language description

    This structured literature review is an attempt at a comprehensive overview of the research on childlessness and social support in old age. In total 33 articles published between January 2000 and July 2018 were reviewed. The articles covered nonparents and social support, social contacts, social networks, and various socio-demographic factors that may influence these. While there was no overall consensus on these topics, some findings emerged more frequently than others. Nonparents have smaller, more diverse social networks, fewer frequent social contacts with family members, but see friends and neighbours more often. Most articles also depict the childless elderly as a vulnerable group with higher rates of loneliness. They generally do not lack social support in the form of household help, yet their social networks appear to be less capable of providing more intensive care. Cultural context, marital status, gender, age, and health status also affect these. Interestingly among parents, family size and the gender and proximity of children also play an important role in social support provision. The review concludes that despite elderly nonparents having more diverse social networks to compensate for the absence of children, they seem to suffer more from social loneliness than parents, and their social networks may provide less support, which may result in a lack of social support when facing deteriorating health.

  • Czech name

  • Czech description

Classification

  • Type

    J<sub>ost</sub> - Miscellaneous article in a specialist periodical

  • CEP classification

  • OECD FORD branch

    50402 - Demography

Result continuities

  • Project

  • Continuities

    S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach<br>I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Others

  • Publication year

    2019

  • Confidentiality

    S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Data specific for result type

  • Name of the periodical

    Finnish Yearbook of Population Research

  • ISSN

    1796-6191

  • e-ISSN

  • Volume of the periodical

    2018

  • Issue of the periodical within the volume

    53

  • Country of publishing house

    FI - FINLAND

  • Number of pages

    26

  • Pages from-to

    25-50

  • UT code for WoS article

  • EID of the result in the Scopus database