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August 14, 2026Open Access

The spatial dynamics of health and intergenerational ties in later life

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SASanny Boy D. Afable

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Longitudinal cohort study shows health-driven relocation toward adult children improves survival in spouseless older adults, highlighting the role of intergenerational proximity in healthy aging.

Key Points

  • To examine the bidirectional relationship between parental health decline, residential proximity to adult children, and parental longevity in aging populations.
  • Applied event history analysis and decomposition methods to longitudinal European survey data and Finnish administrative population registers.
  • Parental health decline is associated with proximity-enhancing residential relocations toward adult children, especially among parents without a spouse.
  • Intergenerational geographic distance has increased over the twenty-first century, driven primarily by compositional shifts in the population.
  • Close geographic proximity to adult children is positively associated with greater longevity exclusively among spouseless older parents.

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Sanny Boy D. Afable (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a7ec79cb70b84ec8b91417chttps://doi.org/10.17630/sta/1702
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