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The Elderly Person and Family Life
Author(s) -
Lefroy R. B.
Publication year - 1977
Publication title -
australian journal of social issues
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.417
H-Index - 30
eISSN - 1839-4655
pISSN - 0157-6321
DOI - 10.1002/j.1839-4655.1977.tb00585.x
Subject(s) - elderly people , unit (ring theory) , nuclear family , project commissioning , gerontology , active ageing , family member , publishing , point (geometry) , family life , psychology , older people , sociology , medicine , political science , gender studies , family medicine , law , mathematics education , geometry , mathematics , anthropology
The relationship between an elderly person and other members of his family is worthy of study from the point of view of both young and old. The extended family, rather than the nuclear or immediate family, is the relevant unit for the majority of people including the elderly. The evidence available from industrialized societies shows that the elderly can gain considerable support during the process of ageing by being included in the modified extended family. While institutions for the elderly are undoubtedly necessary, more elderly people could remain integrated in the normal community providing family life survives and is supplemented by an active policy of home help.