Coresidence of the Older Persons in India: Who Received Support and What Are the Levels of Familial Support?

Kinkar Mandal

Traditionally, in South Asian countries strong patrilineal practices where older parent coresidence with their children. Co-residence with adult children in an extended family is a common type of support in India. In the family older parents played a significant role in nurturing young ones and were considered guardians for maintaining traditional values and morals. In this moral value, parents continue residing with their adult children. The paper aims to understand the levels of family support and who received support from their children in India. The analysis based on BKPAI-2011 data found that ‘coresidence’ is the major form of family support to older persons. This paper strongly argued that the gender status of the older persons was associated with coresidence. Further, the study concludes that the older persons who live in rural areas, widows, belong to the Muslim community, good health they have higher chances to coresidence with their children.

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 Presented in Session 39. Cognitive Aging Research in Novel Contexts