Older adults' experience of family life [electronic resource] / Mary Breheny and Christine Stephens.
Material type: TextSeries: Blue Skies report (Online) ; no. 21.Publisher: Wellington, N.Z. : Families Commission, 2007Description: 1 electronic document (36 p.) : PDF fileISBN:- 9780478328011 (internet)
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"Blue Skies Fund"--Cover.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 35-36)
Acknowledgements-- Executive Summary -- 1. Introduction: -- 1.1 Older adults in New Zealand -- 1.2 What is the Family? -- 1.3 Importance of Family -- 1.4 Family Formation -- 1.5 Summary -- 2. Method: -- 2.1 Participants -- 2.2 Data Collection -- 2.3 Data Analysis -- 3. Results: -- 3.1 Linked Lives: -- 3.1.1 Importance of family -- 3.1.2 Who are family? -- 3.1.3 Family ties are never broken -- 3.1.4 Like family -- 3.1.5 Spouses and partners -- 3.1.6 Siblings -- 3.1.7 Children -- 3.1.8 Grandparents -- 3.1.9 Grandchildren -- 3.1.10 Maintaining contact -- 3.1.11 Summary -- 3.2 Independent Living: -- 3.2.1 Independent individuals -- 3.2.2 Independent nuclear family -- 3.2.3 Encouraging children's independence -- 3.3 Contradictions in Linked and Independent Lives: -- 3.3.1 Caring -- 3.3.2 Reciprocity -- 3.3.3 Summary -- 4. Discussion: -- 4.1 Family -- 4.2 Changing family structure -- 4.3 Independence -- 4.4 Caring -- 4.5 Reciprocity -- 4.6 Conclusions -- Appendix 1: Interview schedule -- References.
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