Modernisation and ageing theory revisited: current explanations of recent developing world and historical Western shifts in material family support for older people
Modernisation and ageing theory has provided the main platform for the debate on changes in family support for older people in both the industrialised and the developing worlds. Although its well-known proposition of an ‘abandonment’ of older people in individualistic society has received much atten...
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Cambridge University Press
2004
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