How Much Care Do the Aged Receive from Their Children? a Bimodal Picture of Contact and Assistance
How Much Care Do the Aged Receive from Their Children? a Bimodal Picture of Contact and Assistance
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老年人从子女那里得到多少照顾？
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1987
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John N. Morris
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L. Kotlikoff;John N. Morris
本文介绍了一些关于老年人和他们的孩子之间的接触的基础上，一个新的调查，名为希伯来康复中心的Hebrew Rehabilitation Center for the Hebrew-NBER（HRC-NBER）儿童调查的初步结果。关于大家庭的数据相当有限。人权理事会-国家经济研究局儿童调查是收集老年人及其子女经济和人口数据的少数尝试之一。虽然这些数据将用于未来的研究，以测试结构模型的生活安排，本文件的目的是描述调查，并检查老人和他们的孩子之间的联系。虽然我们的调查结果是初步的，并将随着我们收到更多的数据而更新和扩大，但似乎有相当一部分老年人，其中许多人在日常生活活动方面需要帮助，他们要么没有子女，要么与子女的接触有限。儿童与脆弱老人之间的接触似乎少于儿童与非脆弱老人之间的接触，而儿童与机构老人之间的接触似乎最少。此外，虽然我们的数据中有许多父母非常贫穷，但子女对父母的经济支持，除了以合租住房的形式，并不常见。这些数据给人的印象是，许多老年人得到子女的很好照顾，而相当多的少数人没有子女，或没有子女提供大量时间或照顾。这个样本的一些发现是惊人的：（1）超过五分之一的老年人没有孩子。(2)超过一半的老年人没有女儿，或者没有女儿住在离他们不到一小时的地方。(3)一半以上的单身老年男性和女性以及五分之二以上的弱势单身老年男性和女性完全独自生活。(4)在有子女的老年人中，不到四分之一的人与子女住在一起。(5)一小部分有子女的老年人最多一年收到一次他们的来信。(6)近10%的老人子女最多一年接触一次。(7)子女向老年人提供经济援助，即使是在老年人相当贫穷的情况下，也极为罕见。(8)在一个典型月份里，有子女的老年人中有四分之一以上没有时间与子女在一起。
This paper presents some preliminary findings about contact between the aged and their children based on a new survey of the aged and their children, entitled The Hebrew Rehabilitation Center for the Aged-NBER (HRC-NBER) Child Survey. Data on extended families is quite limited. The HRC-NBER Child Survey represents one of the few attempts to collect economic and demographic data on the elderly and their children. While these data will be used in future,research to test structural models of the living arrangements, the purposes of the current paper are to describe the survey and to examine contact between the elderly and their children. While our findings are preliminary and will be updated and expanded as we receive more data, it appears that a significant minority of the elderly, many of whom need assistance with the activities of daily living, have either no children or have only limited contact with their children. Contact between children and the vulnerable elderly appears to be less than that between children and the nonvulnerable elderly, and the amount of contact between children and the institutionalized elderly seems the least of all. In addition, although many of the parents in our data are very poor, financial support from children to parents, other than in the form of shared housing, is uncommon. The impression given by these data is that many of the elderly are very well cared for by their children, while a significant minority either have no children or have no children who provide significant time or care. Some of the findings for this sample are striking: (1) over a fifth of the elderly have no children. (2) over one half of the elderly either do not have a daughter or do not have a daughter who lives within an hour of them. (3) over half of single elderly males and females and over two fifths of vulnerable single elderly males and females live completely alone. (4) of the elderly who have children, fewer than a quarter live with their children. (5) a small fraction of elderly with children hear from them at most on a yearly basis. (6) almost 10 percent of the children of the elderly have at most yearly contact. (7) financial assistance from children to the elderly, even in cases where the elderly are quite poor, is extremely rare. (8) in a typical month over a quarter of elderly who have children do not physically spend time with their children.