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Title: Late-Life Families

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Publication Year: 2019

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/0000099-035

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Abstract: The intent of this chapter is to provide an overview of late-late families within the context of couple and family psychology. We begin with the latest demo-graphic data on older adults in the United States and a description of their varied family structures. While these demographic characteristics and family forms are often mirrored or emergent across the globe, inclu-sion of international research about late-life families is beyond the scope of this chapter in most instances (for a discussion of aging families in a global context see, for example, Bengtson & Lowenstein, 2003, and Keating & de Jong Gierveld, 2015). Next, we examine older adults’ relationships with their spouse or part-ner, adult children, grandchildren, siblings, extended kin, fictive kin, and chosen kin, highlighting contem-porary issues that challenge these relationships in late life, including divorce and remarriage, filial norms and expectations, and chronic illness and caregiving. We conclude the chapter with recommendations for theoretical and methodological frameworks needed to guide the study of late-life families and priority areas for future research.

Url: https://psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/2018-59956-035.pdf

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Authors: Roberto, Karen, A; Weaver, Raven, H

Editors: Fiese, Barbara, H

Pages: 631-647

Volume Title: APA Handbook of Contemporary Family Psychology: Foundations, Methods, and Contemporary Issues Across the Lifespan, B

Publisher: American Psychological Association

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Volume: 1

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Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Aging and Retirement, Family and Marriage

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