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Understanding links between family experience, obligations and expectations in later life
by Christine Millward
Melbourne, AIFS, 1999, 22 pages, (Working paper no.19) ISSN 1440-4761

This paper examines meanings and expectations of family life and support for people aged 50 to 70, focusing on social relations between generations. Age cohorts and family life stage are not synchronous, so this age group represents a broad range of family and personal change, with conflicting roles and priorities in accommodating needs of both younger and older generation family members. Personal traditions and planning for old age are also pertinent.

Past research, plus new findings from the Institute's Later Life Families case studies, underpin a discussion of: family policy and family support in old age; the interplay between family networks, dynamics, styles and personal behaviours; views of the role of government in supporting an ageing population; and expectations about family support in old age.

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