This document discusses intergenerational family systems, which are families with a biological parent living with an adult child. It has doubled since 1970. Assessing these families requires knowledge of aging beliefs and life course development, looking at how age, relationships, transitions, and social change shape lives. Impacts include cultural expectations, intergenerational relationships, and families evolving over time through normative transitions like children leaving home and non-normative ones like an elderly parent moving in. A life course perspective assesses family history, linked lives, and divergent paths over generational, individual, and historical time through principles of age stratification, cohorts, and trajectories.

1. Intergenerational Family Systems

2. DefinitionA Family with a biological parent living in the house with an adult childExamplesA 76 year old parent moves in with her Daughter and HusbandAn adult child gets divorced and moves back home with his parents

3. DefinitionsDiffers from multigenerational familyA group of people from different generations who may or not be relatedExampleA family takes in an older adult who is not related but needs care

4. Incidence over timeDoubled since 1970

5. Assessing and TreatingKnowledge of several areasAgingBeliefs about how family members relate to eldersBeliefs about the aging processIn the next slides you will be asked to post three beliefs you have about the aging process

6. Life Course Developmental Perspectivelooks at how chronological age, relationships, common life transitions, and social change shape people’s lives from birth to death.

7. ImpactsCultural and Family ExpectationsLife Course Developmental PerspectiveIntergenerational Relationships

8. Family are SystemsSystem are always in motion, they are never at some final placeFamily evolves consistently

9. Examples of Families EvolvingStop for a minute and think about a time in your families life when it had to adjust to a change, when it had to evolve.Reflect on that moment to understand the concept

10. Developmental IssuesNormative Developmental TransitionsTransition we make through life that are expected based upon our developmentFor a family think ofWhen a couple has a childWhen the child goes to schoolWhen one parent gets a raiseWhen a second child is bornWhen the children leave the as adults

11. Developmental TransitionsNon-normativeTransition that are outside the usual developmental or “normal developmental process”For a familyDeath of a young childLayoff or loss of job for the main breadwinnerPremature death of a parentElderly adult moving back into the home of a family

12. Assessing Families Using a Life course PerspectiveIn the assessment processFocus on the notion of linked livesEmphasis on history as an important factorAll contributing the the divergent paths taken by individuals and families across the life span

13. PrinciplesAge StratificationPeople of different generations confront unique challenges because of individual development and social changeHuman Development over timeIndividual timeGenerational TimeHistorical Time

14. PrinciplesCohortsGroups of People who enetr a similar experince at the same timeTransitionsEvents serve as markers

15. TrajectoriesPathways of Individual and Family DevelopmentDifferent Meaning for Different IndividualsFamily Trajectories are determined by the place of the Family in theLarger Social WorldTheir Generational TimeTheir Historical Time

16. Pause the PresentationGo to the link belowOnce there complete a timeline (follow the directions)Create a timeline for members of your family of different generationsLook at those timelines and consider how history and when you were born impact you and how they may impact a familyhttp://www.OurTimeLines.com

17. ReviewBased upon what you have learned?About Generational DifferenceAbout the impact of people's cohort groupAbout the elderly and their impact in the familyWhat new insights do you have about family assessmentWhat do you know now that you did not know before this presentation