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…
Development is commonly assumed to undermine intergenerational solidarity in developing countries. Evidence from a series of surveys in Thailand calls this assumption into question. Intergenerational support networks have remained intact despite…
The 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…
This ethnographic study sought to explore family relationships; roles and the meaning of active aging among rural Northeastern Thai elders. Study participants consisted of 58 elderly informants and 45 family members from 44 different family…