Health Of Elderly Parents Research Articles

A Study on Impact of Cancellation of Maintenance of Aged Parents in Tamil Nadu

In India, there are some circumstances under which maintenance payments for elderly parents may be cancelled. An important piece of law that deals with the maintenance and welfare of old parents in India is the Maintenance and Welfare of Parents and Senior Citizens Act, 2007. It does not, however, detail any explicit measures for maintenance cancellation. According to the Act, adult children or relatives are required by law to support ageing parents or other senior individuals who are unable to care for themselves. The support Tribunals set up at the district level allow parents or senior persons to request support from their children or relatives. The maintenance support could, however, be cancelled or stopped under some circumstances. The main objective of the study is To know the impacts of cancellation of maintenance of old aged parents. The research method pursued here is empirical research. A total of 210 samples were collected, all of which were collected by practical sampling methods. Elderly parents may experience significant financial stress as a result of the discontinuation of maintenance. Their fundamental requirements, such as shelter, healthcare, and living expenses, could be difficult to meet. Relationships between elderly parents and their adult children or relatives may be strained if maintenance is terminated. It might cause mental distress, difficult communication, and a breakdown in family dynamics. In Tamil Nadu, the termination of maintenance can have serious negative impacts on the health of elderly parents. Financial hardship, restricted access to healthcare, increased stress, and possibly social isolation are all possible outcomes. These elements may have a detrimental effect on their general quality of life

Health of Elderly Parents, Their Children's Labor Supply, and the Role of Migrant Care Workers

We estimate the impact of parental health on adult children’s labor market outcomes. We focus on health shocks which increase care dependency abruptly. Our estimation strategy exploits the variation in the timing of shocks across treated families. Empirical results based on Austrian administrative data show a significant negative impact on labor market activities of children. This effect is more pronounced for daughters and for children who live close to their parents. Further analyses suggest informal caregiving as the most likely mechanism. The effect is muted after a liberalization of the formal care market, which sharply increased the supply of foreign care workers.

Health of Elderly Parents, Their Children's Labor Supply, and the Role of Migrant Care Workers

We estimate the impact of parental health on adult children's labor market outcomes. We focus on health shocks which increase care dependency abruptly. Our estimation strategy exploits the variation in the timing of shocks across treated families. Empirical results based on Austrian administrative data show a significant negative impact on labor market activities of children. This effect is more pronounced for daughters and for children who live close to their parents. Further analyses suggest informal caregiving as the most likely mechanism. The effect is muted after a liberalization of the formal care market, which sharply increased the supply of foreign care workers.

Adult child migration and elderly parental health in rural China

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the effect of adult children migration on the health status of elderly parents. Increased labor migration in developing countries that lack adequate social security systems and institutionalized care for the elderly is a phenomenon that is important to understand. When their adult children go away to work, it is not clear what effect there will be on “left-behind” elderly parents. Design/methodology/approach This study employs nearly nationally representative data from five provinces, 25 counties, 101 villages and 2,000 households, collected from two waves of data in 2007 and 2011. This sample comprises a subset of households which include both elderly individuals (above 60 years old) and their grown (working-aged) children in order to estimate the impact of adult child migration on the health of elderly parents in rural China. Findings This study finds that adult child migration has a significant positive impact on the health of elderly family members. Practical implications These findings are consistent with the explanation that migration raises family resources, which in turn may contribute to better health outcomes for elderly household members. Originality/value This is the first paper to attempt to identify the relationship between household migration and the health of elderly parents within the Chinese context.

Alone but better off? Adult child migration and health of elderly parents in Moldova

Increasing labor migration and simultaneous aging of societies are two important demographic developments many poor countries face. Elderly people who are left behind may experience a decrease in welfare when their children migrate. This paper investigates the effect of migration on various dimensions of elderly health using unique data from Moldova, which has one of the highest emigration rates in the world. We find positive migration effects on body mass index (BMI), mobility and self-reported health. No effects are found on depression and cognitive capacity. We find evidence that these positive outcomes are linked to an income effect which leads to improvements in diet and identify a reallocation of time use from subsistence farming to leisure and sleep which may have further beneficial effects. These positive effects seem to compensate the elderly for decreasing social contact with their migrant family members.

Do Fertility Control Policies Affect Health in Old Age? Evidence from China's One‐Child Experiment

How do fertility control policies contribute to the welfare of women, and their husbands, particularly as they get older? We consider whether the reduction in fertility resulting from population control policies has had any effect on the health of elderly parents in China. In particular, we examine the influence of this fertility decline, experienced due to China's one-child policy, on several measures of the health of parents in middle and old age. Overall, our results suggest that having fewer children has a positive effect on self-reported parental health but generally no effect on other measures of health. The results also suggest that upstream financial transfers have a positive effect on several measures of parental health.