Contact and proximity of older people to their adult children: A comparison between Italy and Sweden

Population, Space and Place

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 359-380

  Bordone, Valeria ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANNHEIM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Crossnational comparison; Intergenerational relations; Older people

Indexed keywords

AGING POPULATION; ELDERLY POPULATION; HUMAN BEHAVIOR; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SWEDEN;

EID: 69949099093     PISSN: 15448444     EISSN: 15448452     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/psp.559     Document Type: Article

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