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GRANDPARENTING PRACTICES AROUND THE WORLD

Edited by

Virpi Timonen

First published in Great Britain in 2019 by

Policy Press University of Bristol 1-9 Old Park Hill Bristol BS2 8BB UK Tel +44 (0)117 954 5940 e-mail

North American office: Policy Press c/o The University of Chicago Press 1427 East 60th Street Chicago, IL 60637, USA t: +1 773 702 7700 f: +1 773-702-9756 e:

Policy Press 2019

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ISBN 978-1-4473-4064-5 hardback

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ISBN 978-1-4473-4068-3 Mobi

The rights of Virpi Timonen to be identified as editor of this work has been asserted by her in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

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Contents

Virpi Timonen

Rachel Margolis and Bruno Arpino

Debora Price, Eloi Ribe, Giorgio Di Gessa and Karen Glaser

John Knodel and Bussarawan Teerawichitchainan

Jaco Hoffman

Yanqiu Rachel Zhou

Dovile Vildaite

Lyn Craig, Myra Hamilton and Judith E. Brown

Hanna Ojala and Ilkka Pietil

Megan L. Dolbin-MacNab and April L. Few-Demo

Vern L. Bengtson and Merril Silverstein

Esther C.L. Goh and Sheng-li Wang

Lucie Vidoviov and Lucie Galanov

Virpi Timonen

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List of abbreviations

AgenDA	Ageing and Generational Dynamics in Africa
CREW	Care, Retirement & Wellbeing of Older People Across Different Welfare Regimes
ELSA	English Longitudinal Study of Ageing
ESS	European Social Survey
EU	European Union
GGS	Generations and Gender Survey
HAI	HelpAge International
HDRSS	Heads & Deanery Research Support Scheme
ICT	information and communication technologies
ILC	International Longevity Centre
LGBTQ	lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer
LMM	Latent Markov Model
LSOG	Longitudinal Study of Generations
MAS	Myanmar Ageing Survey
MICRA	Manchester Institute for Collaborative Research on Ageing
NIH	National Institutes of Health
NSO	National Statistical Office
OAP	Old Age Pension
OECD	Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
OPA	Older Persons Act 13 of 2006 (South Africa)
PRC	Peoples Republic of China
SHARE	Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe
SOPT	Survey of Older Persons in Thailand
SRT	social relational theory
SSA	Sub-Saharan Africa
TANF	Temporary Assistance to Needy Families
TUS	Time Use Survey
UCT	University of Cape Town
UPF	Universitat Pompeu Fabra
VNAS	Vietnam Ageing Survey
WHO	World Health Organization

Notes on contributors

Bruno Arpino is an Associate Professor at the Department of Political and Social Sciences, Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), Spain, where he is also Co-Director of the Research and Expertise Centre on Survey Methodology (RECSM). His research interests are in the areas of social demography and applied statistics. He is particularly interested in studying intergenerational relationships, ageing and health, fertility and immigrants assimilation. He coordinates a three-year international project titled Care, Retirement & Wellbeing of Older People Across Different Welfare Regimes (CREW). For more information, please see his personal website: https://sites.google.com/site/brunoarpino/.

Vern L. Bengtson is Research Professor in the Roybal Institute on Aging at the Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work, University of Southern California (USC), CA, and AARP (American Association of Retired Persons)/University Professor of Gerontology Emeritus. A past president of the Gerontological Society of America, he has published 19 books and 260 research articles on ageing, families and intergenerational relationships. Over his 50-year scholarly career, Bengtsons research contributions have been recognised in the form of Distinguished Scholar awards from four major professional associations. Among his recent books are How Families Still Matter: A Longitudinal Study of Youth in Two Generations, The Handbook of Theories of Aging and Families and Faith: How Religion Is Passed Down across Generations.

Judith E. Brown is a Research Officer at the University of New South Wales, Australia. She specialises in applied social statistical analysis and has considerable expertise in time-use analysis. She has published in the fields of social policy, sociology, psycho-oncology and health psychology.

Lyn Craig is Professor of Sociology and Social Policy and Australian Research Council Future Fellow at the University of Melbourne, Australia. Her research interests include time use and gender, workforce participation, intersections between the family and the economy, intergenerational connections over the life course, and comparative family and social policy.

Giorgio Di Gessa is a lecturer in Global Ageing at Kings College London, UK. He completed his PhD in Demography at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK. He has a longstanding interest in the field of social gerontology, particularly in the demographic and social determinants of health and wellbeing in later life in Europe. He has a particular interest in associations between social engagement (such as caring, volunteering and paid work) and mental and physical health at older ages. Much of his work involves cross-national comparisons of the complex relationships between ageing and health using longitudinal secondary data and a life-course perspective. Dr Di Gessa has a keen interest and expertise in quantitative methodologies, including hierarchical modelling and causal inference.

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