Caring for their parent

Paula Albuquerque

No 2006/16, Working Papers Department of Economics from ISEG - Lisbon School of Economics and Management, Department of Economics, Universidade de Lisboa

Abstract: Should someone with more adult children expect to have further chances of avoiding institutionalisation in old age than someone with fewer children? Should an aging population build more institutions for the elderly, including for the elderly with children? We show that population aging – as the motive for the reduction of the number of children to every parent – does not imply that the elderly with adult children will have to rely more on institutions when they need long-term care.

Keywords: living arrangements; elderly; adult children. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D19 J14 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2006
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