Saturday, April 2 / 8:30 AM - 10:20 AM   •   Coolidge

Session 152:
Family Ties in Later Life: Contact, Care, and Relationships II

Chair: John G. Haaga, National Institute on Aging (NIA), NIH
Discussant: Karen F. Glaser, King's College London
Discussant: Liliana E. Pezzin, Medical College of Wisconsin

  1. The Relevance of Norms for Understanding Intergenerational RelationshipsValeria Bordone, University of Mannheim

  2. The Network Bases of Social Support: Why Socially Embedded Spouses Are More SupportiveBenjamin Cornwell, Cornell University

  3. The Dynamics of Families' Long-Term Care DecisionsMichelle Goeree, University of Southern California ; Bridget Hiedemann, Seattle University ; Steven Stern, University of Virginia

  4. Chiseling a Notch Out of the Next Generation's Assets: The Effect of the Social Security Amendments of 1972 and 1977 on Intergenerational Transfer BehaviorJeremy G. Moulton, University of California, Davis

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