Aging parents helping adult children: The experience of the sandwiched generation

Family Relations

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 262-271

  Ingersoll Dayton, Berit ^a   Neal, Margaret B ^b   Hammer, Leslie B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Caregiving; Help giving; Intergenerational exchanges; Reciprocity

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035599392     PISSN: 01976664     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1741-3729.2001.00262.x     Document Type: Article

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