The authors review research conducted during the past decade on immigrant families,
focusing primarily on the United States and the sending countries with close connections to …

This work comes from the interest and need to understand the problems arising from the
activity of caring for dependent people, in the world and particularly in the European region …

This chapter analyzes the process of global population aging, which has a significant impact
on all areas of public life in the twenty-first century. Already today, in almost two dozen …

Introducing findings from the 2004 Survey of Health, Ageing, and Retirement in Europe
(SHARE), this research complements the large number of recent US studies on the role of …

Winner of the 2022 Textbook & Academic Authors Association′ s The McGuffey Longevity
Award Aging: Concepts and Controversies is structured to encourage a style of teaching and …

Recent research has suggested that financial transfers from parents to their adult children in
the family are less likely to take place but more intense—ie for larger amounts—in the …

The present chapter analyzes one of the most important factors in world development—the
dynamics of global demographic growth, which demonstrates that the fears of uncontrolled …

In the chapter, Grinin et al. give the outline of a new world order whose emergence will be
caused by a new technological wave (the final phase of the Cybernetic Revolution) …

From the laughing clubs of India and robotic granny minders of Japan to the" Flexsecurity"
system of Denmark and the elderscapes of Florida, experts in this collection bring readers …

As the baby boomer generation approaches midlife, many dual-earner couples are
struggling with issues of simultaneously caring for children while tending to aging parents …