Generational interdependence: living arrangements and housing programmes
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https://doi.org/10.21504/sajg.v1i1.9Abstract
The broad social issue of generational competition versus generational interdependence is discussed. The way elders are housed offers an excellent example of how benefits putatively allocated to older people in fact more often than not subsume benefits to family members of all ages. Data on generationally shared households from a number of countries and the results of recent studies from the United States are discussed in this context. Separate housing of generations is often preferred where feasible. Where economic, environmental. health, or social needs of either elder or young generations make autonomous households dysfunctional, members of each generation show in their household-formative behaviour their willingness to assist the other generation.References
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Upp, M. 1982. A look at the economic status of the aged then and now. Social Security Bulletin. 45: 16-22.
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