Support Now to Care Later: Intergenerational Support Exchanges and Older Parents' Care Receipt and Expectations.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Older parents' previous support exchanges with adult children could influence which child currently provides care or which child they expect to provide care in the future. Distinguishing between support and care, we investigated how different types of past support exchanges with children were associated with care receipt and expectations from the parent's perspective.

Methods

Older parents (N = 190; Mage = 79.98) reported on exchanges of tangible and nontangible support, and provision of childcare support with each of their adult children (N = 709; Mage = 52.69) in two waves of the Family Exchanges Study (2008 and 2013). Multilevel, within-family, logistic regression models were estimated to examine how past patterns of support exchanges were associated with which

SUBMITTER: Bui CN 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9256031 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature