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Harmonised Households: Les Ménages A Ménager

Harmonised Households: Les Ménages A Ménager ‘Mapping Intergenerational Care: Proximity, Propinquity and Resources in the ‘tacit’ intergenerational contract’ Dr Alex Fanghanel, Prof Sara Randall University College London Dr Ernestina Coast, London School of Economics.

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Harmonised Households: Les Ménages A Ménager

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  1. Harmonised Households: Les Ménages A Ménager ‘Mapping Intergenerational Care: Proximity, Propinquity and Resources in the ‘tacit’ intergenerational contract’ Dr Alex Fanghanel, Prof Sara Randall University College London Dr Ernestina Coast, London School of Economics

  2. ‘…in Western societies there is a hegemonic geography of care and responsibility which takes the form of a nested set of Russian dolls. First there is ‘home’, then perhaps place, or locality, then nation, and so on…’ (Massey, 2004: 8-9)

  3. How are older people implicated in intergenerational care arrangements? • How is this affected by proximity, propinquity and access to financial resources? • What do these exchanges of care mean for the ‘tacit’ intergenerational contract? • Where propinquity = affective, emotional closeness • And proximity = geographic closeness

  4. Taken for granted/Unexceptional care Normative Difficulties identifying intergenerational contract Inter-familial care within a household Universalistic

  5. How we did it… 32 qualitative interviews 4 sites Household interview grid used to record responses Analysis of types, directions and qualities of intergenerational exchanges, both in and out of the household 3 case studies

  6. Wealth Child care Affective help Direct/Indirect Every-day care Practical care Tangible/Intangible Co-Habitation Facility Financial/Material Support Distance

  7. www.householdsurvey.info

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