Racial/ethnic differences in living arrangements, distant relations, and later‐life mental health

J Liu - Journal of Marriage and Family, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Objective This research investigates associations between living arrangements and older
adults' depressive symptoms and whether these associations are moderated by extended …

China's aging population: A review of living arrangement, intergenerational support, and wellbeing

L Zhao - Health Care Science, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
China's rapid population aging and remarkable family‐level changes have raised concerns
about the weakening of its family‐based elderly care. The last decade indeed has seen a …

Intergenerational caregiving patterns and cognitive health among the sandwich generation within four-generation families

J Shi, D Zhang, X Liu - The International Journal of Aging …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
This study aims to investigate whether generational differences in intergenerational
caregiving patterns (caring for parents only, caring for grandchildren only, and caring for …

[HTML][HTML] Do mental and physical health trajectories change around transitions into sandwich care? Results from the UK household longitudinal study

B Xue, RE Lacey, G Di Gessa, A McMunn - Public Health, 2025 - Elsevier
Objectives Sandwich carers provide care to ageing parents or older relatives while
simultaneously raising dependent children. There has been little focus on how mental and …

The Time Divide: Daily Activity Patterns of Midlife and Older Adults in China

M Luo - Research on Aging, 2025 - journals.sagepub.com
This study employs a holistic, cluster-based approach to comprehensively examine how
daily activity patterns in mid-and later life vary by urban or rural residence and between men …

Grandparenting and life satisfaction among Chinese elderlies: a study of possible mechanisms

X Cheng, T Ariyo - BMC geriatrics, 2023 - Springer
Objective This study examines the impact of caregiving on older people's life satisfaction,
focusing on the role of caring for grandchildren. The study considers individual …

The impact of grandparenting on mental health among rural middle-aged and older adults in China: exploring the role of children's support

YH Wang, XL Hu, Y Li - Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Objectives In the rural regions of China, characterized by a pronounced aging demographic
and limited resources, a substantial proportion of middle-aged and older adults engage in …

How Do Older Parents With One Child Live? The Well-Being of Chinese Elders Affected by the One-Child Policy

Y Xu, T Hu, J Wang - SAGE Open, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
China's One-Child per couple policy (OCP) has created a generation of one-child families,
and these parents are now getting old. How do they live? This study examined the well …

Intergenerational caregiving among “sandwich grandparents” in China

H Xu - Chinese Journal of Sociology, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
“Sandwich grandparents” are middle-aged and older adults who have both living parents (or
parents-in-law) and young grandchildren. They are faced with competing demands for …

Grandparenting and life satisfaction of the aged in rural areas: A study in Kalia Upazila of Narail District

D Chandra, DK Das, A Polly - Journal of Women & Aging, 2025 - Taylor & Francis
In rural Bangladesh, older adults generally enjoy their role as grandparents and spend their
leisure and inactive periods (non-involvement in income-generating activities) with their …