Living arrangements of ever-married older lebanese women: Is living with married children advantageous?

Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 5-17

  Mehio Sibai, Abla ^a   Beydoun, May A ^b   Tohme, Rania A ^a  

^a AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT   (Lebanon)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Lebanon; Living arrangements; Married children; Older adults; Women

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; DEMOGRAPHY; ETHNOLOGY; FAMILY RELATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LEBANON; MALE; MOTHER CHILD RELATION; SOCIAL CLASS; SPOUSE; STATISTICS;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DATA COLLECTION; FAMILY RELATIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEBANON; MALE; MOTHER-CHILD RELATIONS; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; SOCIAL CLASS; SPOUSES;

EID: 67649322347     PISSN: 01693816     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10823-008-9057-7     Document Type: Article

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