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題 名 | 老人安養的人口基礎--代間共居可能性的模擬分析=Demographic Foundations of Elderly Living Arrangement: A Simulation Study of Intergenerational Co-residence |
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作 者 | 黃時遵; | 書刊名 | 人口學刊 |
卷 期 | 16 1994.07[民83.07] |
頁 次 | 頁53-77 |
分類號 | 544.8 |
關鍵詞 | 人口老化; 老人安養; 代間; 共居; 代間共居; 可能性; 模擬分析; |
語 文 | 中文(Chinese) |
英文摘要 | As a result of sharp ferti1ity decline, the aging of the Taiwan population has proceeded rapidly and is likely to continue in full force in the future. Conventionally, the family, especially married adult children, has been thought as the best source of support for the elderly in Taiwan. However, an aging population reduces the child availability of the elderly and the possibility of three-generational co-residence. In this paper we employ family status life tables to assess the effects of demographic processes on family composition and to reveal trends in elderly living arrangement. We found that further declining fertility and changing nuptiality are responsible for the prevalence of nuc1ear family composition. Increasing proportion of nuc1ear families indicates a decreasing probability for the elderly parents living with their married children. In addition, according to the current nuptiality trends, the increasing proportion of women of all ages who remain at never-married status will strengthen its effects on family composition in the near future. While our social welfare po1icy f or the elderly just focuses on how to reduce the economic burden of young cohort on elderly caring, this paper suggests that we have to be aware of the dwindling expected years of adult life with responsibility (i.e.caring young children and old parents in the family) due to the further decline of ferti1ity, and re-evaluate the absolute economic burden of young cohort if the magnified economic burden on elderly caring could be offset by lessening childcaring. |
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