Organizer: Sulo: The Philippine Studies Initiative at NYU

Type/Location: In Person / New York, NY

Description:

Sulo: The Philippine Studies Initiative at NYU, in collaboration with NYU Silver School of Social Work, and New York Southeast Asia Network (NYSEAN), invites you to Tagasaló o Nagsasalo? Precedents and Consequences of Intergenerational Support in Later-Life Filipino Families*, a lecture by Dr. Kent Jason Cheng from the University of Massachusetts Boston. 

* Saló is the root word for “to catch,” while salo is the root word for “to share or feast together,” used as a metaphor to represent shared responsibility.

Abstract:

Filipino families are often described through the lens of utang na loob (debt of gratitude) and reciprocal obligation, but who actually ends up providing and receiving support as parents age — and why — remains an open empirical question. Is support concentrated in a single tagasaló — the family member who catches every financial and caregiving need? Or is it nagsasalo (feasting together) — shared and redistributed across siblings and generations? Against the backdrop of rising longevity, longer years spent living with disease and disability, and declining fertility shrinking the pool of sumasaló, what happens across the life course when a sumasalo today becomes the sole tagasaló tomorrow? This talk draws on life course theory and social exchange theory to identify the precedents and consequences of both giving and receiving intergenerational support among older Filipinos.

About the Speaker:

Dr. Kent Jason Cheng is a population health scientist, social gerontologist, and family demographer who broadly studies the social determinants of health across the life course in the United States, the Philippines, and other countries. His primary research focus is on the health implications of family support and social welfare policies among older adults and their families.

Registration:

To attend the event in person, please register here.