Aids and the elderly of thailand

Projecting familial impacts

Bibliographic Data

ID10967966
AuthorsKenneth W Wachter (0000-0003-2802-2212, Wachter, Department of Demography, University of California, Berkeley, 2232 Piedmont Avenue, Berkeley, CA 94720-2120, corresponding author), John E Knodel (Population Studies Center, University of Michigan, USA), John Knodel (University of Michigan), Mark Vanlandingham (Tulane University)
Year2002
Volume39
Issue1
Pages25-41
Publication date2002-02-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueDemography (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0070-3370 • E-ISSN: 1533-7790
PublisherDuke University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1353/dem.2002.0012
PMID11852838
OpenAlexW1992404640
LanguageEN
Citations received10
References cited13

We apply aggregate demographic analysis and computer microsimulation to project the number of older Thais who will lose children to AIDS during their own lifetimes and to assess their involvement with ill children through caregiving and coresidence. Parental bereavements from AIDS are predicted to peak at around 80,000 per year between 2003 and 2007. Despite an HIV prevalence of only 2%, 13% of Thais who were over age 50 as of 1995 are likely to experience the loss of at least one adult child to AIDS, and 12% of them will lose multiple children. The chance of losing an adult child during onés lifetime will be 70% higher than if there were no AIDS epidemic

Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV · Sociology · Thais · Demography · HIV/AIDS Impact and Responses · Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving · Medicine · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare · Virology · Gerontology