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The relationships formed by elderly people: reflecting cultural changes in Europe

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 February 2002

JENNY DE JONG GIERVELD
JENNY DE JONG GIERVELD
Affiliation:
Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences (NIAS), Meijboomlaan 1, 2242 PR Wassenaar, The Netherlands. E-mail: Gierveld@nias.knaw.nl.
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Abstract

Social and cultural changes that have taken place since the 1960s have had a major impact, in particular on the lives of young adults, but they have also affected the living conditions and opportunities of older adults. The presentation of a selection of relevant data about elderly people's demographic position in different countries of Europe is central in the second section. In the final section results of a Dutch survey are provided and information about new flexible forms of living arrangements when starting a new partner relationship after the age of fifty, are presented and discussed

Type
Research Article
Information
European Review , Volume 10 , Issue 1 , February 2002 , pp. 43 - 52
Copyright
© Academia Europaea 2001

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