Year: 2020
Type: report
Abstract: Generational overlap affects the care time demands on parents and grandparents worldwide.Here, we present the first global estimates of the experience of simultaneously having frail older parents and young children ("sandwichness") or young grandchildren ("grandsandwichness'') for the 1970-2040 cohorts using demographic methods and microsimulations.We find that sandwichness is more prevalent in the Global Southe.g., almost twice as prevalent in Sub-Saharan Africa as it is in Europe for the 1970 cohortbut is expected to decline globally by onethird between 1970 and 2040.The Global North might have reached a peak in the simultaneous care time demands from multiple generations but the duration of the grandsandwich state will increase by up to one year in Africa and Asia.This increasing generational overlap implies more care time demands over the entire adult life course but also opens up the opportunity for the full potential of grandparenthood to materialize.
Language: English
Subfield: Sociology and Political Science
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: gold
OpenAlex ID: W3109314560