Life Course Pathways Into Intergenerational Caregiving.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

We develop a framework for the analysis of pathways into intergenerational caregiving to older people provided by family members using life course concepts of key turning events in life, cumulative processes, and linked lives within the family realm.

Methods

Using framework analysis, we analyze semistructured qualitative interviews from a sample of dyads (older cared-for adults and their main family carers comprised of children, children-in-law, and grandchildren) in Austria (N = 24) and Slovenia (N = 52). Data were collected in 2019 through purposive sampling, including dyads from a differentiated socioeconomic background and gender.

Results

The analysis reveals 4 nonexclusive pathways into caregiving. One pathway is associated with single turning events o

SUBMITTER: Rodrigues R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9255941 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature