Abstract
This chapter investigates the extent to which older adults in Western and Eastern European countries are socially integrated, or lonely, and the factors that enable or place barriers to social integration of older adults. In doing so, the data of the Generations
and Gender Surveys (wave 1) are analysed for some Western, Central and Eastern European countries: Bulgaria, France, Germany, Georgia and the Russian Federation. Two avenues towards social integration of older adults will be central: the integrating features of the broader family, i.e. the composition and functioning of family bonds and
the living arrangements, which concern the size and composition of the household in which older women and men are involved.
| Original language | Undefined |
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| Title of host publication | How generations and gender shape demographic change: towards policies based on better knowledge: conference proceedings GGP |
| Place of Publication | New York etc. |
| Publisher | United Nations |
| Pages | 107-125 |
| ISBN (Print) | 978 92 1 117004 7 |
| Publication status | Published - 2009 |