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Honor Your Father and Your Mother? Adult children and elderly parents as

Department of Social and Economic Geography & Centre for Population Studies: Ageing and Living Conditions Programme, Umeå University, Sweden. Anna Pettersson Gunnar Malmberg. Honor Your Father and Your Mother? Adult children and elderly parents as migration attractions in Sweden.

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Honor Your Father and Your Mother? Adult children and elderly parents as

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  1. Department of Social and Economic Geography & Centre for Population Studies: Ageing and Living Conditions Programme, Umeå University, Sweden Anna Pettersson Gunnar Malmberg Honor Your Father and Your Mother? Adult children and elderly parents as migration attractions in Sweden

  2. The Swedish context • Age of retirement : 65-67 years • 17% of the population > 65 years (2002) • Adult children has no statutory responsibility for their elderly parents (since 1956) • 8% of the population 65 years and older received public home care • 6% in assisted living Source: 2005 The National Board of Health and Welfare

  3. But, 20% of the population over 65 have no adult children in the country Source: Elaborated from the ASTRID-database

  4. Theoretical approachElderly migration • Life long migration • In a ”mobile window” • Adjustment migration

  5. Theoretical approachWhy wanting to get closer? • Assistance to the elderly • Assistance to the younger • Distance and cost – proximity as a way to reduce costs for family members (Cox and Rank 1992) • By “accident”

  6. The study • Cross sectional study: catch the moment and observe a time- typical phenomena • ”Adjustment migration” • Moves made to within 100 meters distance of a relative

  7. Material Cross sections from 1991-1992 and 2001-2002 • Two populations: • All people over 65 with at least one adult child living in Sweden • All the adult children (over 20 years) of these older parents • Links between parents and siblings • Data on residence, family, socio-economic situation etc.

  8. Research questions • To what extent do adult children and elderly parents move close to each other? • What characterizes those who move within 100 meters of a relative? • When convergence occurs, is it because the elderly move or because the young move?

  9. To move and move closer

  10. Who are the movers?

  11. Age is an important factor

  12. Who had no parent within 100 m in 01, but in 02? Adult children

  13. Who had no child within 100 m in 01 but in 02? Elderly parents

  14. Conclusion • In the elderly population an increased migration rate is seen among the very old • Grandchildren seems to have an important impact on adjustment migration, as do proximity to more than one relative • The overshadowing pattern seen also in this study is the higher migration propensity among the young

  15. Looking forward:More research on similar material • Include also the once that move further apart, since that too effects distance • Need to follow actors over time – longitudinal approaches Thank you!

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