Big congratulations, Ali! 🎉

Many thanks to my amazing supervisors and co-authors Y. Vierboom, M. Evans, @jmikolai.bsky.social, H. Kulu, and M. Myrskylä. Special thanks as well to the @imprs-phds.bsky.social and @cpc-cg.bsky.social for the support!

Amid welfare retrenchment in many countries, the findings of this study point to the importance of centering family networks, home-based care, and ageing in place in discussions of residential (im)mobilities in later life.

Population ageing raises the question of where and with whom people live as they grow older. We find that the answers can be different but also in many ways similar for parents and childless adults, especially when they face physiological health challenges.

It would be interesting to look at how parents and children maximize, if at all, their close proximity in response to health challenges. My first chapter, also published as an MPIDR working paper, and my third ongoing project aim to answer this.
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We find that parents live within 30 minutes of car journey to their nearest child. Modest evidence of their growing spatial separation is due to structural drivers, including educational expansion and increasing rates of divorce. @phrg-standrews.bsky.social @mpidr.bsky.social

A key innovation of this study lies in the application of OpenStreetMap to calculate more realistic distances, & we also pay attention to the gender dynamics between parents and children, e.g., mothers live closer to their sons, while father-daughter pairs are living the farthest.

There should be a list of a few demographers' accounts that we can follow. I'll share it when I have found it! 😄