LONGITUDINAL PATTERNS OF PROVIDING GRANDCHILD CARE AND ECONOMIC PREPARATION FOR LATER LIFE IN SOUTH KOREA. (11th November 2018)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Kim, H
• Is Part Of: Innovation in aging. Volume 2(2018)Supplement 1
• Page Start: 165
• Page End: 165
• Publication Date: 2018-11-11
• Subjects: Aging -- Periodicals; Gerontology -- Periodicals; 612.67
• DOI: 10.1093/geroni/igy023.596
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 2399-5300

Abstract

Abstract: Despite a growing number of grandparents providing grandchild care and increasing concern about economic preparation for later life in Korea, there is a lack of studies about relationships between providing grandchild care and economic preparation for later life. Drawing the feminist perspective on caregiving, this study highlights the associations with the longitudinal patterns of providing care of grandchildren and the status of economic preparation for later liter life, by using data the third, fourth, fifth, and sixth waves of Korean Retirement and Income Study(KReIS) and logistic regression to analyze the data. The following results were found. First, there is no significant relationship between providing care for grandchildren and the economic preparation for later life among the middle and old aged adults in the third wave, controlling for age, education, marital status, employment status and household income. However, using the longitudinal patterns of providing care for grandchildren, there is a significant relationship between providing care for grandchildren and economic preparation for later life between the third wave to the sixth wave of the KReIS(p < .05). In addition, this significant finding was found among only men, not women. The findings of this study suggest that there are the different associations between providing care for grandchildren and the economic preparation for later life based both on the longitudinal patterns of providing care of grandchildren and on gender. Lastly this paper discusses implications for future researcher and social welfare practitioners.