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Akif Mustafa; Chander Shekhar – Educational Gerontology, 2024
Life satisfaction is an important component of successful aging and is known to be associated with health, well-being, and longevity. This study examines the association between children's educational attainment and life satisfaction among older parents in India while also exploring the moderating effect of the children's and parents' sex on the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Attainment, Life Satisfaction, Parent Child Relationship
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Manacy Pai; Chandan Kumar; Lucky Singh; Prashant Kumar Singh – Educational Gerontology, 2024
The health and well-being of older parents, especially in low and middle-income countries (LMICs) like India, depend on adult children. As such, using the 2017-18 wave 1 of the Longitudinal Aging Study in India (LASI), we examined (1) the association between adult children's education and older parents' cognitive health in India; (2) the extent to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adults, Children, Older Adults
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Jesmin, Syeda S.; Amin, Iftekhar; Ingman, Stan – Educational Gerontology, 2011
As low income societies are aging rapidly, government and families face challenges to support the seniors, who are already at greater risks of being negatively affected by many other social, cultural, and global changes occurring around them. This paper reviews some of the major challenges faced by seniors in China, India, Mexico, and African…
Descriptors: Low Income, Foreign Countries, Sustainability, Aging (Individuals)