Page 37 - 5th APA Conference Program Book Final
P. 37
(Kalimantan, Sulawesi, Papua). Women with more children are more physically active than women with fewer
children.
PS 2.4 Ageing, Social Networks and Families
12:30 - 2:00pm Tuesday, 3rd August, 2021
Presentation Type LIVE Session
Moderator: Jeofrey Bautista Abalos , Basilica Dyah P.
353 Changes in Social Networks at Older Ages: How do they Respond to Loneliness?
Abhijit Visaria, Pildoo Sung, Angelique Chan
Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore, Singapore
Categories
8. Population Dynamics, Demographic Transition and Population Ageing
Abstract
In this study, we examine the relationship between changes over time in older adults’ family- and friends-based
networks and changes in their physical health and psychological well-being. We use data from the Panel on Health
and Aging of Singaporean Elderly, a nationally-representative study of older Singapore citizens and permanent
residents aged 60 years and older in 2009 (N=4990), with two follow-up surveys in 2011 (N=3103) and 2015
(N=1572), and implement person-fixed-effects models. Our results suggest that family-networks are robust to
worsening basic activity limitations for both men and women, but adversely affected by worsening psychological
well-being in terms of depressive symptoms and loneliness. An increase in instrumental activity limitations appears
to isolate older women, but not men, from family as well as friends. Men’s friends-based networks are unaffected
by worse psychological well-being, and interestingly, an increase in loneliness is associated with an increase in
friends-based networks for women.
1107 Distance Matters: Upward and Downward Exchange of Financial Support
between Elderly Parents and Migrant- and Non-migrant Children in Rural Indonesia
1
2
Nur Cahyadi , Iwu Dwisetyani Utomo , Peter Francis McDonald
1
2
1 Australian National University, Canberra, Australia. University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
Categories
8. Population Dynamics, Demographic Transition and Population Ageing
37 | P a g e
