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Does Transition to Retirement Promote Grandchild Care? Evidence From Europe [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 Evolutionary theory posits that grandparents can increase their inclusive fitness by investing in their grandchildren. This study explored whether the transition to retirement affected the amount of grandchild care that European grandparents provided to ...
Antti O. Tanskanen +6 more
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Grandchild care and life satisfaction of older adults: Empirical evidence from China
Frontiers in Psychology, 2023 BackgroundIn China, grandchild care plays an important social role later in life. The effects of grandchild care on physical health and depression in older adults have been illustrated.
Xiangyu Dong +3 more
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Genus, 2022 Little research has examined the cross-national differences in the impact of grandchild care provision on the grandparents’ depression, by taking into account of both macro- and micro-level factors.
Yazhen Yang +2 more
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Juggling Grandchild Care and Labor Force Participation: The Effect on Psychological Wellbeing of Older Women [PDF]
Frontiers in Sociology, 2022 Although it is well-known that care responsibilities are strongly gendered also in later life, the consequences for older women of juggling work and care responsibilities are understudied.
Bruno Arpino, Daniela Bellani
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PLoS ONE, 2022 ObjectiveThis study seeks to explore the association between grandchild care and Attitudes Towards Own Ageing, assessing whether the commencement of, or ceasing, grandchild care is associated with changes in grandparents' perspectives on ageing ...
Eleanor Quirke +2 more
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Should We Care that They Care? Grandchild Care and Its Impact on Grandparent Health [PDF]
, 2013 This paper investigates the impact of occasional grandchild care on grandparent healthusing the pan-European dataset SHARE on elderly people. We find a small but statisticallysignificant positive correlation between grandchild care and physical health ...
Reinkowski, Janina
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Grandparenthood, grandchild care and depression among older people in 18 countries
Journal of Family Research, 2019 Due to the increasing central role of grandparenthood in later life, sound knowledge about its effects on older people’s health is more and more important.
Valeria Bordone, Bruno Arpino
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Retirement and grandchild care in China: mental health consequences and policy implications
BMC Public HealthBackground In China’s rapidly aging society, retirement and grandchild caregiving are two critical life transitions for older adults. This study examines how these dynamics jointly relate to depressive symptoms among older adults and explores their ...
Yang Mou, Zijun Tan, Hongxian Nie
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Frontiers in Public Health, 2023 ObjectivePrior studies showed mixed results of the association between grandchild care and grandparents’ health. This research focused on the mechanisms behind the above link by studying how internet use served as a mediator through which grandchild care
Jie Wang +3 more
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BMC Public Health, 2022 Background There may be differences in gender and marital status in the impact of grandchild care on the depression of the Chinese older adults. This research explores the effect of grandchild care on the depression of Chinese older adults of different ...
Shaoliang Tang +7 more
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