Thailand has an elderly population of 10%. This paper shows how the Thai elderly live; both socially and economically. A national survey found that 16% of elderly households in the rural areas live in substandard conditions. The majority of the…
Purpose - This article aims to present the issues that challenge women and family to provide elder care. It also shows weaknesses of policy that strongly attaches to traditional expectation and does not adapt to actual changes by presenting an…
This study examines the level and patterns of elderly parent and adult child resource transfer and the relationship between family structure and the direction of resource transfer. A sample of 657 elderly parents was chosen from the 2009 baseline…
Elders' experiences while aging in place were obtained as part of an effort to develop a typology of emic (culture-specific) and etic (universal) models of aging. Data came from interviews with older adults in Italy; Thailand; Botswana; and the…