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| Title | Family Support Networks among Elders in a Native American Community: Contact with Children and Siblings among the Prairie Band Potawatomi |
| Created by: | Robert John |
| Description: | Study primarily consisted of interviews with 19 elders about contact with each child and sibling with respect to nine common activities: recreation, visits to talk, family gatherings, participation in religious activities, telephone conversations, sharing a meal, exchanging gifts, and giving or receiving help. The effects of proximity, gender, marital status and equity of helping relationship were then analyzed. |
| Citation: | Journal of Aging Studies, Vol. 5, No. 1, 1991, pp. [45]-59. |
| Publication Date: | 1991 |
| Categories: | Indigenous Studies Portal > Society > Elderly Indigenous Studies Portal > Society > Family & Kinship |