Filial responsibility expectations of Nigerian and Indian University students

摘要

The study examines the likely future scenarios of old age care in Nigerian and Indian societies through examination of the attitudes of the youth towards the elderly, their filial responsibility expectations and their old age expectations. Results suggest that while there are gross similarities in the expressed value placed on old people in the two societies, subtle differences exist between them and that modernization as a socio-cultural force seems to have affected the two societies differently as regards old age attitudes and receptivity to formalized care of the old.