Widowhood, Intergenerational Family Support and Living Arrangement Among Older Adults in China: Based on Gender LENS

Widowhood becomes an extended experience for old adults in China because of increased life expectancy, particularly for older women. While intergenerational family support and living arrangement of older adults has changed greatly during the past decades in China because of huge population migration and life style transformed.Drawing on the Senior Citizens Survey date of the Third Wave Survey on the Social Status of Women in China, jointly launched and organized by the All-China Women’s Federation (ACWF) and National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), which carried out on December 1, 2010,this paper explores the patterns, status and associates of widowed older adults’ living arrangement and intergenerational support in China, using logistic model. Conclusion : Preliminary findings suggest that the widow older women have closer intergenerational support and higher probability of live together with children than widower. Controlled the age, health status, educational attainment, housing and income resource , whether older adults give a hand to their children on housework make sense on their living arrangement, give money to their children can great increase the probability of older widower live together with their children, while take care of grandchildren decrease the probability of living together with children for widow older women. The paper try to explain the gender difference based on gender lens.