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    The impact of AIDS on older-age parents in Cambodia

    Population Studies Center, University of Michigan, 2006
    This quantitative study of Cambodia looks at the impact of the death of a child due to AIDS on their older parents, and iams to directly contributes to improving data collection and analysis on the status, trends and socioeconomic impact of the epidemic, a recommendation specifically set out by Cambodian government in their efforts to meet the United Nations Millennium Goals.Findings from this
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    Rural parents with urban children: social and economic implications of migration on the rural elderly in Thailand

    Population Studies Center, University of Michigan, 2005
    This study aimes to explore the circumstances in Thailand under which the migration of rural adult children to urban areas takes place, with attention to how parents and their situation influence these decisions, and the consequences for the social and economic well-being of parents who remain behind in the rural areas after the children leave.
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    Conference news: ageing, development and social protection

    United Nations [UN] Research Institute for Social Development, 2002
    The UNRISD conference examined the opportunities, problems and challenges of effective social protection for older people, including formal public policies and more informal strategies, such as household support systems.In Session One, participants considered the dynamics and challenges of population ageing in countries experiencing different development trajectories.
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    Age structural transition and economic growth: evidence from south and southeast Asia

    Centre for Development Studies, Kerala, India, 2002
    This paper looks at the nature and process of age structural transition in the countries of South and Southeast Asia and its influence on economic growth.
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    Social impact of the economic crisis on vulnerable children in Thailand

    World Bank, 1998
    Aims to assess the key social impacts of the economic crisis in Thailand and its possible implications for children and their families in Thailand and neighbouring countries.Impacts of the economic crisis on Thailand include: unemployment rapidly rose in rural areas.
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    AIDS and older persons: an international perspective

    Impact of the AIDS Epidemic on Older Persons, 2002
    The impact of the worldwide AIDS epidemic on persons age 50 and over has received relatively little consideration except in the United States where interest has focused almost exclusively on older persons living with AIDS or at risk of infection.
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    The impact of Thailand's AIDS epidemic on older persons: quantitative evidence from a survey of key informants

    Impact of the AIDS Epidemic on Older Persons, 2000
    This report assesses the involvement of parents in Thailand in the caregiving and living arrangements of adult AIDS cases and the economic impact on the families and parents through expenditures on treatments and other routes.
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    The economic consequences for parents of losing an adult child to AIDS: evidence from Thailand

    Impact of the AIDS Epidemic on Older Persons, 2002
    This report examines the economic consequences for parents of losing an adult child to AIDS in Thailand with emphasis on the effects of parental caregiving.
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    Health impacts of co-residence with and caregiving to persons with HIV/AIDS on older parents in Thailand

    Impact of the AIDS Epidemic on Older Persons, 2002
    An emerging literature indicates that parents are main caregivers to persons with HIV and AIDS (PHAs) in Thailand, especially during the late stages of illness.
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    Parents providing care to adult sons and daughters with HIV/AIDS in Thailand

    Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, 2001
    This report is a qualitative analysis of the circumstances and consequences of parental caregiving to adult children with AIDS in Thailand based on open-ended interviews, primarily with parents of adult children who died of AIDS.The results reveal the circumstances that lead to parental caregiving, the tasks involved and the stress they created, how parents coped with this stress, and the conse

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