Poster session on Population ageing and intergenerational relations (1)

The 2009 Population and Housing Census data have indicated that Vietnam is reaching the end of its “demographic transition” marked by three emerging characteristics, i.e. decreasing fertility rates, decreasing mortality rates, and increasing life expectancy. As a result, the percentage of elderly population (aged 60+) increased from 6.9 percent in 1979 to 9 percent in 2009 or 2.12 times in term of absolute number. Vietnam population will enter the aging phase in 2017.
Getting old before getting rich, the elderly population in Vietnam is facing various health issues i.e. changing substantially from communicable diseases to non-communicable and chronic ones; higher treatment cost; poor quality health services to the elderly living in rural, mountainous areas and ethnic minorities as well as low awareness of health risks among elderly themselves. In contrast, insufficient investments have been made to the elderly care system leading to the fact that while life expectancy is increasing, healthy life conditions for the elderly have not been significantly improved.
In response to the aging situation, a policy package needs to be addressed from strengthening healthcare services to health education, better elderly-friendly living environment and public social and community-based assistance.

This study focuses on estimating work-life expectancy and retiring ages for the elderly in korea. From observing each age group for last 10 years, there is a distinct pattern that all generations have kept increased work-life expectancy and following retiring ages. In general, women have higher life expectancy than men, who generally have higher work-life expectancy on the other hand.
This is largely because men generally have been actively participated in labor market more than women have. Also, each birth-cohort among elderly people shows that there is faster growth of expected retiring-ages than effective retirement age growth of their ages, which allows the elderly to delay their retirements.

The aim is to "explain" the formal social service coverage in Spain. The following research questions are raised: how services meet the needs of older people -are there many who need help but do not get it?- and does that vary from one region to another?
Spain is the only Southern European country with extensive services for older persons, greatly expanded in recent decades but suffering from vast regional variations. We use Spain as an example to describe and analyse regional variation in services and care for elderly people. A strong regional autonomy can lead to large variations in the distribution of social services, which has turned out to be the case
within care of the elderly in Spain. This study analyses these variations and to what extent they respond to or reflect differences in social or physical needs. Cross-national individual data, regionally representative, and geographical information on macro factors such as public spending on services are analysed to map out the variations in old-age care, to study compensating factors in the care system, and to explore the connection with regional demographic and socioeconomic conditions. The main preliminary result is that social factors (living alone) rather than physical needs determine service use, and especially so when coverage rates are low.

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This paper will focus on care provided by adult children to elderly parents only. Its main aim is to study effects of the quality of relationships between parents and adult children on the likelihood of care transfers. Attitudes towards responsibilities of elder care and their influence on a probability of care provision are also to be accounted for. We presume that the quality of relationships between parents in need and their adult children and supportive attitudes may be good predictors for care transfers. The contextual background is reflected by an appropriate selection of European countries to be studied.
The data come from the Generations and Gender Survey carried out in selected European countries. The countries representing different care regimes and living arrangements of the elderly are to be selected (i.e. Poland, France, Belgium, Netherlands, Romania, Germany, Estonia). The logistic regression models with the dependent binary variable of giving/receiving care will be applied. The models include not only the basic socio-demographic and economic characteristics of givers and receivers of care, but also a spatial proximity and a frequency of contacts between parents and children. Moreover, the quality of relationship as well as opinions on filial obligations are included in the models.

Objective :This study was performed to investigate the factors affecting on the health-related quality of life of young-old(65-69 yr), old-old(70-79 yr), and oldest-old(80 yr or above) women in vulnerable elderly received home care service from public health centers in Korea.
Methods :The data were collected from 383 elderly women. Multiple regression were used to analyze the data.
Results : There were statistically significant differences among young-old, old-old, and oldest-old women regarding the health-related quality of life, life satisfaction, cognitive function, frail condition. The models including life satisfaction, frail condition, cognitive function, perceived health status, number of chronic diseases were explained variance of the health-related quality of life elderly women differently like 42.8% of young-old, 28.9% of old-old, and 31.5% of oldest-old.
Conclusion : Finally, frail condition and life satisfaction were predictors in explaining the level of health-related quality of life among vulnerable old women regardless of age. Based on the findings of the study, health promotion programs should be developed to improve health-related quality of life of vulnerable aged women according to age differences.

Key Words: Elderly, Women, Quality of life, Vulnerable population

Few studies have focused on intergenerational transfers from older women to their adult children during emergencies such as marriage formation and dissolution. There is limited documentation about the support of older women to their daughters during and after marriage crises.
In this paper, our objective is to provide evidence of the role of older women as safety nets for younger women during and after marriage crises by drawing from 8 case studies of older persons’ households in-depth interviews from western, central and eastern Uganda. In addition, key informant interviews are used to substantiate the findings of household in-depth interviews.
Our findings are that older women still play a vital role of caring for children born out of wedlock when their daughters get married; provide financial support, material and emotional support to their daughters during and after marriage crises. Further research is needed to ascertain the changes in intergenerational solidarity in the context of time and marriage dynamics.

The Global Aging Data Repository provides information and tools to facilitate cross-national studies of aging. The repository currently contains: (1) meta data from and searchable concordance information on all available waves of the Health and Retirement Study (HRS), the English Longitudinal Study on Ageing (ELSA), the Survey of Health, Ageing, and Retirement in Europe (SHARE), the Korean Longitudinal Study on Aging (KLoSA), the Chinese Health and Retirement Longitudinal Survey (CHARLS), the Mexican Health and Aging Study (MHAS), and the Japanese Study of Aging and Retirement (JSTAR), the Longitudinal Aging Survey in India (LASI), the Indonesian Family Life Survey (IFLS), the Irish Longitudinal Study of Aging (TILDA), and the Study on Global Ageing and Adult Health (SAGE); (2) survey flow charts, illustrating sequence of questions, including skip patterns and preloads; (3) harmonized variables on demographics, sample weights, identifiers, marital history, parent mortality, family structure, health, health behavior, financial and housing wealth, income, and employment history for HRS, ELSA, SHARE, and KLoSA; and (4) a wiki system for researcher comment and input.

Thailand entered ageing society in year 2005 because of the increasing of elderly. Improving quality of life of elderly issue tend to receive society’s attention especially in term of elderly enactments and activities for example establishment of Senior Citizens Club. This paper aims to study the relationship of the community organizations to drive the activities in Senior Citizens Club. The results revealed that the agency was involved in the activities of the Senior Citizens Club include government agencies (health care center, Subdistrict Administration Organization, school and the community as well as the strength of the elderly club itself. The various agencies involved in the management of human resources capital and knowledge. It is also found that the elderly club operation achieved goal, because all sectors are involved and incorporate effective and efficiently. This can be compared to the puzzles that the particular piece if some pieces lost the picture is not complete.

Keywords : Organization, Senior Citizens Club, Incorporating the drive.

Using a life course theoretical framework, this study intends to examine whether the experience of becoming a grandparent for the first time in life will have an independent effect on depression. Since most of the previous studies on grandparents in Korea tend to focus on their role as a caregiver for their grandchildren using cross-sectional data, this study is assessed to have its value as the first attempt to figure out the genuine effect of transition to grandparenthood on psychological well-being using longitudinal data. Data came from the first and second waves of the Korean Longitudinal Study of Aging (KLoSa), which includes in-depth information from personal interviews conducted in 2006 (Time 1) and 2008 (Time 2) with a nationally representative sample of 10,254 middle-to-old aged Koreans over 45 years old. The analytic sample for this study will consist of respondents who became grandparents for the first time between Time 1 and Time 2. For the analysis, lagged dependent variable (LDV) model will be estimated by OLS regression using STATA, and the finding is expected to show an independent effect of the transition event of becoming a grandparent on the depression level of middle-to-old aged Koreans.