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Frontiers in Public Health, 2023 ObjectivesDespite extensive studies about the direct effect of grandchild care on caregiver depression in China, understanding of its internal influencing mechanism has been limited.
Yue Hong, Wei Xu, Lijuan Zhao
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The role of grandparents of children with cancer in the hospital
Revista Brasileira de Enfermagem, 2021 Objective: To understand the role of grandparents of hospitalized children with cancer. Methods: In a qualitative study, we interviewed eleven grandparents of children with cancer hospitalized at a referral center for pediatric oncology in São Paulo ...
Leticia Bottcher Dias +1 more
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Choice and Constraint in the Negotiation of the Grandparent Role: A Mixed-Methods Study
Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine, 2018 Few studies have examined how the allocation and consequences of grandchild care vary across different socioeconomic groups. We analyze qualitative data alongside data from The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing (TILDA), in a convergent mixed-methods ...
Christine A. McGarrigle PhD +2 more
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Regular provision of grandchild care and participation in social activities [PDF]
Review of Economics of the Household, 2016 A considerable proportion of older people regularly care for their grandchildren. This role in later life may subtract time and energies from participation in social activities, which are considered fundamental for active ageing. Using an instrumental variable approach on data from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe, we test whether ...
Arpino B, Bordone V
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Grandchild care, intergenerational transfers, and grandparents’ labor supply [PDF]
Review of Economics of the Household, 2013 One-fifth of children aged below five with employed mothers benefit from grandparent provided child care as their main source of daycare in the US. Using data from the health and retirement study, we investigate how grandchild care needs relate to intergenerational transfers of time and money and grandparents’ labor supply behavior.
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Demographic Research, 2020 Background: Grandparents play a vital role in providing childcare to families. However, little is known about when grandmothers and grandfathers look after grandchildren, what they do with them, and why.
Giorgio Di Gessa +2 more
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Frontiers in Human Dynamics, 2021 In the international literature, the principal task of grandparents is generally recognized as helping their children in providing childcare. Most of those studies analyzed grandparental childcare on the whole population, and few have focused on co ...
Eleonora Trappolini +2 more
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BMJ Open, 2019 Objective The aim of this study was to examine whether there is an association between grandparental care and loneliness, social isolation and/or the size of an individual’s social network among community-based adults aged ≥40 years.Methods Cross ...
Hans-Helmut König +2 more
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A change is (not) gonna come: a 20-year overview of Italian grandparent–grandchild exchanges
Genus, 2021 Levels of coresidence, residential proximity, face-to-face contacts and intergenerational support exchanges remain overall high and stable across European countries. However, to date, few studies have focused on trends in grandparent–grandchild relations.
Marta Pasqualini +2 more
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Suicidal Ideation of the Elderly According to Their Involvement in Grandchild Care [PDF]
Psychiatry Investigation, 2019 The purpose of the present study was to examine the severity of suicidal ideation of the older adults according to the amount of involvement in grandchild care. Data for this research were drawn from a cross-sectional study conducted on community-dwelling adults aged 65 years or older.
Lee, Jeewon +5 more
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