Offspring of older parents are smaller—but no less bilaterally symmetrical—than offspring of younger parents in the aquatic plant Lemna turionifera
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DOI: 10.1002/ece3.3697
Abstract: Abstract Offspring quality decreases with parental age in many taxa, with offspring of older parents exhibiting reduced life span, reproductive capacity, and fitness, compared to offspring of younger parents. These “parental age effects,” whose consequences… read more here.
Keywords: parental age; older parents; age; younger parents ... See more keywords
Migration of adult male children and associated depression among community‐dwelling older parents: A cross‐sectional gender analysis from Longitudinal Ageing Study in India, 2017–2018
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DOI: 10.1002/gps.5675
Abstract: This study empirically examines the association of migration of an adult male child (ren) on the mental health of the older parents left behind. It also examines the interaction effects of sex of older parents… read more here.
Keywords: study; adult male; migration; older parents ... See more keywords
Adult Child Schooling and Older Parents' Cognitive Outcomes in the Survey of Health, Aging and Retirement in Europe (SHARE): a Quasi-Experimental Study.
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DOI: 10.1093/aje/kwac151
Abstract: A growing body of research suggests that adult child educational attainment benefits older parents' cognitive outcomes via financial (e.g. direct monetary transfers) and non-financial (e.g. psychosocial) mechanisms. Quasi-experimental studies are needed to circumvent confounding bias.… read more here.
Keywords: survey health; quasi experimental; cognitive outcomes; older parents ... See more keywords
The Impact of Older Parents’ Pain Symptoms on Adult Children
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DOI: 10.1093/pm/pnw320
Abstract: Objective Not only is persistent pain a debilitating health problem for older adults, it also may have negative effects on family relationships. Studies have documented the effects of pain on spouses and on parents of… read more here.
Keywords: older parents; impact older; adult; pain symptoms ... See more keywords
Children's Divorce and their Financial Support to Older Parents in Rural China.
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DOI: 10.1177/01640275221079400
Abstract: This study examined how adult children's divorce affected their financial support to older parents in rural China and how that relationship was dependent on children's gender. The sample was from rural Anhui Province and the… read more here.
Keywords: support; children divorce; parents rural; support older ... See more keywords
Responsibility inferences and judgments about helping older parents and stepparents
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DOI: 10.1177/0265407518786808
Abstract: The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of responsibility inferences on judgments about helping older parents and stepparents with activities of daily living, health management, and recovery in the aftermath of an… read more here.
Keywords: older parents; judgments helping; helping older; responsibility inferences ... See more keywords
Intergenerational Solidarity With Grandparents in Emerging Adulthood: Associations With Providing Support to Older Parents in Established Adulthood
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DOI: 10.1177/10748407221122873
Abstract: We examined the link between types of intergenerational solidarity with grandparents among young adults in emerging adulthood and whether they provided instrumental and emotional support to their older parents in established adulthood. We used the… read more here.
Keywords: adulthood; parents established; emerging adulthood; intergenerational solidarity ... See more keywords
Older Parents’ Cynical Hostility and Their Relationships with Their Adult Children: A Longitudinal Dyadic Study of North American Couples
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DOI: 10.3390/healthcare11050736
Abstract: Older adults’ relationships with their children are often a source of reciprocal emotional and instrumental support, but also of strain. Cynical hostility is a cognitive schema, according to which people cannot be trusted. Previous studies… read more here.
Keywords: older adults; parents cynical; older parents; cynical hostility ... See more keywords
Factors Associated with the Psychological Health of Caregiving Older Parents and Support from Their Grown Children: Results from the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study
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DOI: 10.3390/ijerph17020556
Abstract: In China, older parents have become an important source of childcare for their grown children since 2010. However, caring for grandchildren may affect older parents’ psychological health (PH) in both positive and negative ways. Using… read more here.
Keywords: grown children; older parents; psychological health; study ... See more keywords