Index of Key Words adaption, environment 91 age grading 117 age-concentration 363 aged 139 aging 51,411 aging in Africa 117 aging in developing societies 117 aging theory 391 alternative financing 255 caste 305 change 277, 305 China 31 Chinese community 209 convergence 363 cross-national migration i91 deference 73 demographies 5 depopulation 163 developing country 339 development 31 discretionary resource transfer 73 domestic cycle 139

immigration 411 impairments 339 in-laws 223 intergenerational relations 31 Israel comparisons 411 Japan 255 Kenya 117 Korea (South) 139 late life cycle 363 long-term care 255 longitudinal study 277

Marginados 223 May-December marriages 177 Melanesia (South PacifiC) 391 migrant characteristics 191 migration 91, 139, 163 morale 91 natural helpers 209 Nepal 305

elderly 5, 163,239, 255, 277, 305 elderly migration 191 emigrant communities 177 environment 91 environments and migration 191 ethnology 73

older immigrants 9 older persons 5

factorial ecology 363 fading out 73 family 31, 51, 139, 239, 305 filial piety 223

remittances 177 research agenda 239 resettlement 411 resource transfer 51 retirees 177 rural conditions 139 rural life 163

grade of membership 339 handicaps 339 Hawaii 177 health 5 home equity conversion 255

patterns of immigration 209 population characteristics 5 Puerto Rico 363

school children 223 self-perceptions 411 senior age groups 117 447

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Singapore 239 social change 1t7 social integration of the elderly 391 social roles 339 Somalia 51 Soviet Jewish refugees 411 spinsters 177 support 239 support network 277 symbolic interaction 73 Taiwain 163 US 411 USSR 411 •urban 223 urban development 363 variegated factor structure 363 voluntary relocation 191 Welsh 277 widowhood 223 women 31 working class 223