The elderly at this time of economic crisis: sometimes one of dependency and other times one of family supporting

  • Jaione Mondragón Universidad del País Vasco / Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea (UPV/EHU)
  • Elsa Santamaría Universitat Oberta de Catalunya
  • Amaia Izaola Universidad del País Vasco / Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea (UPV/EHU)
Keywords: crisis, the elderly, dependency, social and family support

Abstract

The economic crisis is having an important impact on the living conditions of society as a whole and on the aged especially. The purpose of this note is to present the first steps in research under way to revise certain stereotypes regarding the aged and to delve into the role they are carrying out during the economic crisis as the supporters of other generations and of a large part of social well-being.With this purpose and descriptively, this research note presents some of the first results that show us the recent evolution of the indicators of the living conditions of the aged, mainly covering demographic, residential, socio-economic and health aspects. These results have been obtained from data provided mainly by the Living Conditions Surveys prepared by the National Statistics Institute (INE) for 1995 –2010 and the updating of some of them up to 2012by the INE and IMSERSO (2012 -2013).

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Published
2015-12-09
How to Cite
Mondragón, Jaione, Elsa Santamaría, and Amaia Izaola. 2015. “The Elderly at This Time of Economic Crisis: Sometimes One of Dependency and Other Times One of Family Supporting”. Inguruak. Revista Vasca De Sociología Y Ciencia Política, no. 59 (December). https://inguruak.eus/index.php/inguruak/article/view/59-2015-art08.
Issue
No. 59 (2015)
Section
RESEARCH REVIEW

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