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Ageing with Absent Family Financial Support: Gendered Health Risks across the North–South Gradient

Babul Hossain

Economic and Political Weekly2026https://doi.org/10.71279/epw.v61i9.48384article
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Abstract

Family-based financial support has traditionally been central to old-age care in India. Given the gendered and spatial experiences of ageing, it is important to identify groups of older adults who are more vulnerable to adverse health outcomes when such financial support is absent. Utilising the Longitudinal Ageing Study in India, this paper finds that widowed, poor, and SC/ST or OBC women represented the most common intersectional positionality among older adults who faced a particularly high risk of adverse health outcomes, when faced with a lack of informal financial support.

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@article{babul2026,
  title        = {{Ageing with Absent Family Financial Support: Gendered Health Risks across the North–South Gradient}},
  author       = {Babul Hossain},
  journal      = {Economic and Political Weekly},
  year         = {2026},
  doi          = {https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.71279/epw.v61i9.48384},
}

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