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Despite the growing research on the living arrangements of elderly we know very little about intergenerational relations in Turkey. This research is a step towards this goal. The purpose is to assess whether urbanization and economic development at the aggregate level and modernity and secularism at the individual level result in a decline in coresiding and living nearby older family members in Turkey. Results obtained using multinomial logistic estimates are supportive of the hypotheses. There is a significant variation in coresidence and in the reasons for coresiding with older family members by regional development, urbanization, individual modernity and religiosity.
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Autaç, I.A. Intergenerational living arrangements in Turkey. Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology 13, 241–264 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1006546417674
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