In China, formal long-term care services for the large aging population have increased to
meet escalating demands as demographic shifts and socioeconomic changes have eroded …

What do we know about the role of extended families and kinship networks for redistributing
resources? What gaps in our knowledge most need to be filled? How can we best organize …

This comprehensive volume analyses Chinese birth policies and population developments
from the founding of the People's Republic to the 2000 census. The main emphasis is on …

This paper first studies the performance of the Lee–Carter [J. Am. Stat. Assoc. 419
(87)(1992) 659–675] model for mortality forecasting on the Nordic countries. Three …

Unique data from a 1998 healthy longevity baseline survey provide demographic, socio‐
economic, and health characteristics of the oldest old, aged 80–105, in China. This subpopu …

Elucidating environmental evolution and its influencing factors in estuarine areas is
essential to coastal and marine ecological management. In this study, the spatiotemporal …

Demographic shifts in China pose unprecedented challenges in the care of a rapidly
growing older population. Sporadic reports suggest the recent emergence of institutional …

Using the age-and sex-specific data of 14 developed countries, we compare the point and
interval forecast accuracy and bias of ten principal component methods for forecasting …

Mounting evidence suggests that patterns of local relatedness can change over time in
predictable ways, a process termed kinship dynamics. Kinship dynamics may occur at the …

In the present study, features of and trends in child–parent proximity in Sweden are
analyzed using comprehensive register data. The results show that 85% of older parents …