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- Title
Residence, Kinship and Social Isolation Among the Aged Baganda.
- Authors
Nina Nahemow
- Abstract
This research investigated the impact of interactions with kin on social integration in old age. A nonrandom sample consisting of 115 aged Baganda in Uganda were interviewed concerning perceptions of loneliness and social isolation. The results show that, among these people, whose values--individualism, self- reliance and independence--parallel those of the United States, the majority of the elderly do not view old age as a period of loneliness or isolation. Loneliness was found to be associated with widowhood, residential separation from kin and poor health. Respondents who violated norms of neolocality were more satisfied and better integrated.
- Subjects
UNITED States; KINSHIP; OLDER people; SOCIOLOGY; OLD age pensions; RACE relations; SOCIAL integration; GANDA (African people)
- Publication
Journal of Marriage & Family, 1979, Vol 41, Issue 1, p171
- ISSN
0022-2445
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/351741