Living arrangements, intergenerational support types and older adult loneliness in Eastern and Western Europe
By J. de Jong Gierveld, P. Dykstra, N. Schenk. 2012
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Aim of this study was to investigate older adult loneliness as linked with living arrangements and intergenerational support, using data of the Generations and Gender Surveys for East and West European countries. Outcomes: older adults living alone were most lonely, older adults living with a partner were least lonely. Coresidence provides protection, but not to the same degree as a partner. Support exchanges are primarily downward up to advanced ages and primarily upward in latest phases of parents’ life. The outcomes have provided us with clear evidence that living arrangements and intergenerational support are key to older adult loneliness.
Subfields: Demography, Health, Sociology and Political Science
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- Loneliness among older European adults: results from the survey of health, aging and retirement in Europe (2018, background): “Moreover, studies examining the predictors of loneliness in old age have suggested the protective role of living within a partnered arrangement (Gierveld Jde et al. 2012), being socially engaged and having a confidant, friends, relatives and children (Steed et al. 2007), in loneliness prevention.”
- Late-Life Loneliness in 11 European Countries: Results from the Generations and Gender Survey (2016, methodology): “The method of the scale developers (d Jong-Gierveld and van Tilburg 1999), since adopted by others, is to create an index score that counts the number of items on which the respondent reports “more or less” or “higher” (“no” on positively formulated items, ”yes” on negatively formulated items) lonel”