Providing care for an elderly parent: interactions among siblings?

Fontaine, Roméo; Gramain, Agnès; Wittwer, Jérôme

doi:10.1002/hec.1533

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“…The alternative caregivers are typically siblings as the use of formal care is rare (Chan, 2005;Arifin, 2006). The younger of siblings often take up the filial responsibility and care for their aging parents (Konrad et al, 2002;Fontaine et al, 2009).…”

Section: Reasons For Cohabitation and Related Literaturementioning

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Intergenerational cohabitation in modern Indonesia: filial support and dependence

Johar

Maruyama

2011

Health Economics

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Informal filial care plays an important role for elderly parents facing health challenges. Ageing, however, exacerbates the burden of filial care because the ratio of older to younger individuals is higher and disabled parents live longer. The well-being of elderly parents is even more insecure in Asian developing countries that are undergoing unprecedented ageing and drastic changes in social norms and values, whereas old-age support systems have yet to be developed. In this paper, we investigate factors that influence cohabitation decision by elderly parents and their adult children using the longitudinal Indonesian Family Life Survey (IFLS). Focusing on new cohabitation in which a parent who lives independently starts to cohabitate with a child, we conduct transition analysis to make a more convincing causal interpretation than the standard cross-sectional approach. We find that, while parental needs are important, cohabitation is influenced to a larger extent by the costs and gains of children. The elderly facing health and economic challenges are at higher risk of not receiving filial support than other elderly individuals.

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Section: Reasons For Cohabitation and Related Literaturementioning

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Intergenerational cohabitation in modern Indonesia: filial support and dependence

Johar

Maruyama

2011

Health Economics

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“…Fontaine et al [11] also used adaptive capacity, exposure, and sensitivity elements of vulnerability to assess drought vulnerability in the state of Washington. Although they used the same elements of vulnerability as applied by Dressa et al [14], they utilized a different formula; as shown in Equation (2):…”

Section: Vulnerability Assessment Modelsmentioning

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“…Naturally meaning that higher adaptive capacity leads to lower vulnerability. Fontaine et al [11] used the frequency and severity of drought to measure exposure. Furthermore, they measured sensitivity by using magnitude, duration, and the spatial extent of the drought and also applied farmers' managerial skills to measure adaptive capacities.…”

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“…This change in emphasis requires that drought policy makers invest in being prepared, in mitigation, and in prediction/early warning procedures that could reduce future impact of drought and lessen the need for government intervention [10]. Facing the challenges that droughts present, decision makers need to be better informed so that they can decide on the allocation of resources [11]. In the Unites States for instance, since its inception in 1995, the National Drought Mitigation Center (NDMC) has striven to promote drought mitigation planning and to increase the communication between federal, state, and local drought planners [10] so that the administration of drought management can reduce the vulnerability of rural communities.…”

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Vulnerability Assessment Models to Drought: Toward a Conceptual Framework

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Abstract:Drought is regarded as a slow-onset natural disaster that causes inevitable damage to water resources and to farm life. Currently, crisis management is the basis of drought mitigation plans, however, thus far studies indicate that effective drought management strategies are based on risk management. As a primary tool in mitigating the impact of drought, vulnerability assessment can be used as a benchmark in drought mitigation plans and to enhance farmers' ability to cope with drought. Moreover, literature pertaining to drought has focused extensively on its impact, only awarding limited attention to vulnerability assessment as a tool. Therefore, the main purpose of this paper is to develop a conceptual framework for designing a vulnerability model in order to assess farmers' level of vulnerability before, during and after the onset of drought. Use of this developed drought vulnerability model would aid disaster relief workers by enhancing the adaptive capacity of farmers when facing the impacts of drought. The paper starts with the definition of vulnerability and outlines different frameworks on vulnerability developed thus far. It then identifies various approaches of vulnerability assessment and finally offers the most appropriate model. The paper concludes that the introduced model can guide drought mitigation programs in countries that are impacted the most by drought.

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“…In contrast to the collective model, the model for adult siblings in this paper does not assume in advance that the decision process is cooperative (Pareto efficient). Some studies that consider caregiving decisions among siblings assume that decisions are made non-cooperatively (Hiedemann and Stern, 1999;Byrne et al, 2009;Callegaro and Pasini, 2008;Fontaine et al, 2009), while others assume a two-stage decision process in which siblings (1) decide whether to participate in caregiving or not, and (2) those who participate in caregiving make a cooperative care decision (Engers and Stern, 2002). This study computes cooperative as well as non-cooperative equilibria between siblings using the estimated preference parameters from the structural model, and compares these equilibria to the observed outcomes found in the data.…”

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The Effects of Cooperation; A Structural Model of Siblings’ Caregiving Interactions

Knoef

Kooreman

2011

SSRN Journal

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This paper analyzes the decision making process of adult children to provide informal care to their parents. First, we develop a structural model to explain the amount of time that only children (without siblings) spend on providing care, taking into account opportunity costs in terms of time and money. The model is estimated using two datasets from 12 European countries and reveals the preferences of adult children for consumption, leisure and informal care. Although we assume that differences in behavior between children with and without siblings are due to dissimilar constraints only, by selecting children without siblings we do not need to make assumptions about the nature of interactions between siblings in the structural model.In the presence of siblings, their choices also play a role in the caregiving decision. A central question is whether siblings make cooperative or non-cooperative decisions. The second part of this paper aims to establish whether interactions between siblings are cooperative or noncooperative, by comparing predicted cooperative and non-cooperative outcomes with observed outcomes. We use the structural parameter estimates from the first part of the paper and model the non-cooperative outcomes using a quantal response equilibrium. The results suggest that the nature of the interactions between siblings has a strong effect on the division of informal care between siblings. For almost three quarters of the families, the non-cooperative model has a better fit than the cooperative model. If the non-cooperative families were to be pushed into their cooperative outcome, their parents would on average receive 50% more informal care per week from their children, but this would reduce full-time labor supply by 5.7%-points and increase part-time labor supply by 6.7%.

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Providing care for an elderly parent: interactions among siblings?

Cited by 35 publications

References 25 publications

Intergenerational cohabitation in modern Indonesia: filial support and dependence

Intergenerational cohabitation in modern Indonesia: filial support and dependence

Vulnerability Assessment Models to Drought: Toward a Conceptual Framework

The Effects of Cooperation; A Structural Model of Siblings’ Caregiving Interactions

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