Help From and Help to Neighbors Among Older Adults in Europe
Neighborhoods can be a valuable source of social support particularly for older adults. Such support can be mutual; however, the influential factors in giving and receiving are unclear. This study investigated neighborhood help among the older European population using representative data for 17 cou...
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Published in | Frontiers in sociology Vol. 4; p. 46 |
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Main Authors | , |
Format | Journal Article |
Language | English |
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Frontiers Media S.A
30.05.2019
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Summary: | Neighborhoods can be a valuable source of social support particularly for older adults. Such support can be mutual; however, the influential factors in giving and receiving are unclear. This study investigated neighborhood help among the older European population using representative data for 17 countries from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE). The analyses were based on 104,059 observations of 39,113 respondents aged 50 years and older. In general, ~6% of all respondents provided recently neighborhood help, and 4% received help. Moreover, the results indicate a high degree of reciprocity in giving and receiving neighborhood help. However, the situation varied widely among age groups and countries. Our multilevel results suggest that the provision and receipt of help are driven by personal characteristics (age, sex, education, income, and retirement), health resources (subjective health, activities of daily living, and instrumental activities of daily living), living situation (homeownership, location, and length of time in a residence), social factors (marital status, partner, parents, and children), and contextual factors (gross domestic product, social expenditures, poverty rate, Gini index, population density, country-centered satisfaction with life, living, and relationships). |
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Bibliography: | ObjectType-Article-1 SourceType-Scholarly Journals-1 ObjectType-Feature-2 content type line 23 Edited by: Sandro Serpa, University of the Azores, Portugal This article was submitted to Sociological Theory, a section of the journal Frontiers in Sociology Reviewed by: Andrzej Klimczuk, Independent Researcher, Białystok, Poland; Yi-Tung Chang, National Pingtung University, Taiwan |
ISSN: | 2297-7775 2297-7775 |
DOI: | 10.3389/fsoc.2019.00046 |