AGEING AND POVERTY IN AFRICA
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Buganda in relation to the rest of Uganda
Masaka and Rakai districts of Uganda
The main route through the village
A village footpath
A typical household compound
Kikole village
Components and flows of a livelihood
Age and sex distribution of the population of Kikole
The relationship between self-estimated age and emic age rank
A family burial ground
A woman inspects her ripening coffee
A maize crop that has failed due to insufficient rainfall
Making mwenge muganda
Young men bandaging the trunk of a mutuba tree after removing its bark
Travelling sawyers producing construction timber
The house of a coffee buyer
A newly constructed mud walled, grass roofed home
Removing insect pests from bedding
Edith Manubes kibanja
Grace Nantezas kibanja
The receipt of support throughout the lifecourse
A relatively wealthy participant and her four orphaned grandchildren
One of the poorest participants and her two orphaned grandchildren
Components and flows in the livelihoods of the aged
The accumulation and depletion of household resources over the lifecourse
The division of Noel Katusabes kibanja among his sons
The division of Mosess kibanja
The impact of a single shock on sensitive and resilient households
The impact of successive shocks on sensitive and resilient households
Research techniques employed during data collection
Ethnic origin and sex of adults aged 60+
Marital status of adults aged 60+
Distribution of Kikole households by age and sex of the head of household
Number of households headed by those aged under 60 and 60+, by sex of head of household
Religion and age of heads of households
Mean household size by age and sex of head of household
Mean household size by age and sex of head of household: all rural households in Uganda
Mean size of aged households in Kikole, by age and sex of head of household
Household composition by sex of heads of aged households
Co-residence with another adult among adults aged 60+
Co-residence with an adult aged 18-59 years among adults aged 60+
Dependency rate by age and sex of head of household
Mean numbers of partnerships of adults aged 60+, by sex and ethnic origin, that have produced children
Fertility and child survival among married and unmarried men and women aged 60+
Clan membership and ethnic origin among adults aged 60+
Ernie wealth rankings (EWR) of study participants
Ownership of land among men and women aged 60+
Ownership of land among women aged 60+, by ethnic origin
Mean emic wealth rankings of adults aged 60+, by gender and ethnic origin
Mean emic wealth ranking of women aged 60+ by ethnic origin and marital status
Ownership of animals and sex of head of household aged 60+
Maximum and minimum prices obtained by adults aged 60+ for fresh and dry coffee between June 1996 and May 1997
The values of farm animals
Reported costs of a course of treatment at all health care providers consulted by members of participants households, July 1996 - June 1997
Materials used in house construction and mean emic wealth rank of heads of households aged 60+
Ernie wealth ranking of heads of households aged 60+ and mean number of children living nearby
Mean number of children living nearby by marital status and ethnic origin of parent aged 60+
Mean number of surviving children by marital status and ethnic origin of parent aged 60+
Mean number of surviving adult children by marital status and ethnic origin of parent aged 60+
Household use of health services, emic wealth ranking of head of household aged 60+, and the presence of nearby adult children
Most frequently consumed staple of head of household aged 60+, mean emic wealth rank and location of adult children
Household consumption of meat, mean emic wealth rank of head of household aged 60+ and location of adult children
Mean emic wealth ranking by emic age ranking of all adults aged 60+
Overall incidence rates of HIV among males and females in the MRC cohort, 1990-1997
HIV Prevalence among the MRC cohort, by age and sex, 1997
The relationship between the impact of the AIDS epidemic on households headed by adults aged 60+ and the sex and emic wealth ranking of the head of household
The impact of the epidemic on households headed by Baganda and non-Baganda adults aged 60+
The impact of the epidemic on households headed by men and women aged 60+
The impact of AIDS on family and household composition among households headed by men and women aged 60+
Reasons for co-residence with grandchildren aged under 15 in households headed by men and women aged 60+
Mean emic wealth ranking of elders in Kikole by self-reported age
Arrival and settlement, c l948
An example of a will
Selling coffee
Obtaining a tax exemption
Obukko
An accident
Agaria waamu [Being together]
Choice of caregiver
Those who have many children will cry many times.
Grandparental authority
The rejection of a son
My interest in the lives of elders in developing countries stems from my earlier work in rural northeast Thailand, where, in 1994, I was one of a team researching home care of the terminally ill (Bennett et al. 1994, Williams et al. 1996). During this research I became particularly interested in the problems faced by the aged, who were frequently responsible for the delivery of health care in the home, at a time when they were likely to be disadvantaged themselves as a result both of their decreasing abilities as they grew older and the limited support offered to them by family, community and state.
