Nekehia T. QuashiePostdoctoral Researcher, Faculty of Social Sciences, TU Dortmund University, Dortmund Germany •
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Postdoctoral Researcher, Faculty of Social Sciences, TU Dortmund University, Dortmund Germany • Research profile • nekehia.quashie(at)tu-dortmund.de
Health at older ages: childless adults not always worse off than parents
La santé des personnes âgées sans enfant n’est pas toujours moins bonne que celle des parents
Nekehia T. Quashie, Bruno Arpino, Radoslaw Antczak, Christine A. Mair

As children are often the main source of support in later life, childless older adults are presumed to have higher risks of poor health compared to parents. Nekehia T. Quashie, Bruno Arpino, Radoslaw Antczak, and Christine A. Mair show that this is not always the case:
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Ageing without children in Thailand: bad for mental health?
Vieillir sans enfants en Thaïlande: un risque pour le bien-être psychologique ?
Nekehia T. Quashie, Wiraporn Pothisiri

Declining fertility and increasing migration are contributing to growing shares of older Thais who will age with few children, or none at all, or whose children live far away.
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