Decline in Material Family Support for Older People in Urban Ghana, Africa: Understanding Processes and Causes of Change

Journals of Gerontology - Series B Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences

Volumn 59, Issue 3, 2004, Pages

  Aboderin, Isabella ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; AGED; AGING; ETHNIC GROUP; FAMILY; FAMILY LIFE; GHANA; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; POLITICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SOCIOECONOMICS; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 2342644098     PISSN: 10795014     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/geronb/59.3.S128     Document Type: Review

References (36)

1. Aboderin, I. (2000). Social change and the decline in family support for older people in Ghana: An investigation of nature and causes of shifts in support. Unpublished doctorial dissertatior, University of Bristol.
2. Aboderin, I. (2004). Modernisation and ageing theory revisited: Current explanations of recent developing world and historical shifts in material family support for older people. Ageing and Society, 24, 29-50.
3. Aboderin, I. (in press). Intergenerational family support and old age economic security in sub-Saharan Africa. An example from Ghana. In P. Lloyd-Sherlock (Ed.), Living longer: Aging, development and social protection. London: UNRISD, ZED.
4. Apt, N. A. (1992). Family support to elderly people in Ghana. In H. L. Kendig, L. C. Coppard, & A. Hashimoto (Eds.), Family support to the elderly. The international experience (pp. 203-212). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
5. Apt, N. A. (1996). Coping with old age in a changing Africa. Aldershot: Avebury.
6. Apt, N. A. (1997). Ageing in Africa. Geneva: World Health Organization.
7. Assimeng, M. (1986). Saints and social structures. Tema: Ghana Publishing Corp.
8. Barrientos, A., & Lloyd-Sherlock, P. (2002). Older and poorer? Ageing and poverty in the South. Journal of International Development, 14, 1129-1131.
9. Bengtson, V. L., & Allen, K. R. (1993). The life course perspective applied to families over time. In P. Boss, W. Doherty, R. LaRossa, W. Schumm, & S. Steinmetz (Eds.), Sourcebook of family theories and methods: A contextual approach (pp. 469-498). New York: Plenum Press.
10. Burgess, E. W. (1960). Ageing in Western societies. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
11. Cowgill, D. O. (1972). A theory of aging in cross-cultural perspective. In D. O. Cowgill & L. D. Holmes (Eds.), Ageing and modernization (pp. 1-14). New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts.
12. Cowgill, D. O. (1974). Aging and modernization: A revision of the theory. In J. F. Gubrium (Ed.), Late life (pp. 123-145). Springfield, IL: Charles C Thomas.
13. Denzin, N. K., & Lincoln, Y. S. (Eds.). (1994). Handbook of qualitative research. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
14. Dovlo, E. (1992). Comparative overview of African independent churches and charismatic ministries in Ghana. Trinity Journal of Church and Theology, 2, 55-73.
15. Durkheim, E. (1964). The division of labour in society. New York: Free Press. (Original work published 1893)
16. Foner, N. (1993). When the contract fails: Care for the elderly in nonindustrial cultures. In V. L. Bengtson & W. A. Achenbaum (Eds.), The changing contract across generations (pp. 101-117). New York: Aldine de Gruyter.
17. Ghana Statistical Service. (2000). Ghana living standards survey 4. Accra: Ghana Statistical Service.
18. Giddens, A. (1984). The constitution of society. Oxford: Polity Press.
19. Glascock, A. P. (1982). Decrepitude and death-hastening: The nature of old age in third world societies. In J. Sokolovsky (Ed.), Aging and the aged in the third world, part I (Studies in Third World Societies, Publication No. 22, pp. 43-66). Williamsburg, VA: College of William and Mary, Department of Anthropology.
20. Goldstein, M. C., Schuler, S., & Ross, J. L. (1983). Social and economic forces affecting intergenerational relations in a third world country: A cautionary tale from South Asia. Journal of Gerontology, 38, 716-724.
21. Gouldner, A. W. (1960). The norm of reciprocity: A preliminary statement. American Sociological Review, 25, 161-178.
22. Gouldner, A. W. (1973). For sociology: Renewal and critique in sociology today. London: Allen Lane.
23. HelpAge International. (2002). State of the world's older people 2002. London: Author.
24. International Association of Gerontology. (2002). The Valencia report 2002. Retrieved September 24, 2003, from http://www.valenciaforum. com/vfr.html
25. Laslett, P. (1965). The world we have lost. London: Methuen.
26. Laslett, P. (1992). Is there a generational contract? In P. Laslett & J. S. Fishkin (Eds.), Justice between age groups and generations (pp. 24-47). New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.
27. Moody, H. R. (1993). Ethics in an aging society. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.
28. Nukunya, G. K. (1992). Tradition and social change in Ghana. Accra: Ghana University Press.
29. Nydegger, C. N. (1983). Family ties of the aged in cross-cultural perspective. The Gerontologist, 23, 26-32.
30. Sarpong, P. (1974). Ghana in retrospect. Some aspects of Ghanaian culture. Tema: Ghana Publishing Corp.
31. Treas, J., & Logue, B. (1986). Economic development and the older population. Population and Development Review, 12, 655-673.
32. United Nations. (2002). Report of the Second World Assembly on Ageing. New York: United Nations.
33. United Nations Development Programme. (2002). Human development report 2002. New York: United Nations Development Programme.
34. United Nations Development Programme. (2003). Ghana country profile. Retrieved August 8, 2003, from http://www.undpgha.org/pages/country01/4.htm
35. United Nations Population Division. (2003). World population prospects: The 2002 revision; world urbanization prospects: The 2001 revision. Retrieved September 6, 2003, from http://esa.un.org/unpp
36. Van der Geest, S. (2002). Respect and reciprocity: Care of elderly people in rural Ghana. Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology, 17, 3-31.