Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: caregiving in context / Adam Davey and Maximiliane E. Szinovacz
  • Sociocultural contexts
  • Demographic change and the future of informal caregiving / Peter Uhlenberg and Michelle Cheuk
  • Choosing between paid elder care and unpaid help from adult children: the role of relative prices in the care decision / Richard W. Johnson
  • Commitment to caring: filial responsibility and the allocation of support by adult children to older mothers / Merril Silverstein, Stephen Conroy, and Daphna Gans
  • Cross-national variations in elder care: antecedents and outcomes / Ariela Lowenstein, Ruth Katz, and Nurit Gur-Yaish
  • Familial contexts
  • Spouses caring for spouses: untangling the influences of relationship and gender / Eleanor Palo Stoller and Casey Schroeder Miklowski
  • Division of care among adult children / Adam Davey and Maximiliane E. Szinovacz
  • Children in caregiving families / Maximiliane E. Szinovacz
  • Sociopolitical contexts
  • Workplace policies and caregiving / Eliza K. Pavalko, Kathryn A. Henderson, and Amanda Cott
  • Caregiving policies in the United States: framing a national agenda / Steven K. Wisensale
  • Family care for elders in Europe: policies and practices / Gerdt Sundström [and others]
  • Caregiving contexts: implications for research and policy / Maximiliane E. Szinovacz and Adam Davey.