The Current State of the Burden of Family Support for the Elderly in China

An Analysis and Discussion

Bibliographic Data

ID6045549
AuthorsWang Mei (0009-0008-0473-9087, a China Research Center on Aging, Beijing, corresponding author), Xia Chuanling (a China Research Center on Aging, Beijing)
Year2001
Volume34
Issue1
Pages49-66
Publication date2001-10-01
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueChinese Sociology & Anthropology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0009-4625 • E-ISSN: 1558-1004
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.2753/csa0009-4625340149
OpenAlexW2322599922
LanguageEN
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Family support for the elderly is a tradition in China. How to give full play to the function of family eldercare in a rapidly changing social environment is a social problem of growing public concern. Many studies in the past discussed the burden of family support for the elderly merely in general terms and have thus blurred the true circumstances of this problem. This article, based on data from a large sample survey, places the burden of family support for the elderly under three indices to study the current state of family support for the elderly in China. The results indicate that elderly people in China display a relatively high degree of independence in such respects as financial self-support, self-care in everyday life, and spiritual life. Thus, on the whole, the Chinese family is not heavily burdened in providing support for the elderly

China · Chinese family · Chinese society · Elderly people · Everyday life · Family life · Family support · Function (biology) · General Social Survey · Independence (probability theory) · Political science · Sample (material) · Social support · Socioeconomics · Sociology · State (computer science) · Computer Science · Health disparities and outcomes · Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving · Medicine · Migration, Aging, and Tourism Studies · Psychology · Social Psychology · Gerontology

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