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However, little is known about older people living alone who have basic needs for support but do not have kin living nearby or a sustainable relationship to a relative they can rely on. Thus, this paper focuses on the role of nonkin carers and their contribution to the support arrangements of older people living alone.<\/jats:p>\n               <\/jats:sec>\n               <jats:sec>\n                  <jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title>\n                  <jats:p>We conducted semistructured interviews with 32 older people living alone aged between 67 and 99 (\u00d8 84.2 years) in Austria, 23 women, and 9 men. The interviews were analyzed by applying a coding strategy based on grounded theory. In addition, sociograms were created to illustrate relevant relations in each support arrangement.<\/jats:p>\n               <\/jats:sec>\n               <jats:sec>\n                  <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                  <jats:p>We identified and characterized 3 groups of nonkins involved in the support arrangements of older people living alone based on the origins of the relationships: (1) friends, (2) neighbors, and (3) acquaintances like members of various communities. The arrangements were classified according to the amount and quality of involvement of nonkin carers, namely manifold, scattered, and little nonkin involvement.<\/jats:p>\n               <\/jats:sec>\n               <jats:sec>\n                  <jats:title>Discussion<\/jats:title>\n                  <jats:p>Our study highlights the diversity of nonkin support in the support arrangements of older people living alone. This heterogeneity should be considered by policy-makers when promoting informal care and designing policy measures.<\/jats:p>\n               <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1093\/geronb\/gbae008","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2024,1,29]],"date-time":"2024-01-29T16:43:56Z","timestamp":1706546636000},"source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":5,"title":["Nonkin Carers\u2019 Roles and Contributions to the Support of Older People Living Alone: An Analysis of Qualitative Data"],"prefix":"10.1093","volume":"79","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-8395-6168","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Paulina","family":"Wosko","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Austrian National Public Health Institute (Gesundheit \u00d6sterreich GmbH) , Vienna , Austria"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Johanna","family":"Pfabigan","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Austrian National Public Health Institute (Gesundheit \u00d6sterreich GmbH) , Vienna , Austria"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Birgit","family":"Trukeschitz","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Research Institute for Economics of Aging, Vienna University of Economics and Business , Vienna , Austria"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Elisabeth","family":"Reitinger","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Nursing Science, University of Vienna , Vienna , Austria"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Barbara","family":"Pichler","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Nursing Science, University of Vienna , Vienna , Austria"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Sabine","family":"Pleschberger","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Austrian National Public Health Institute (Gesundheit \u00d6sterreich GmbH) , Vienna , Austria"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"286","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2024,1,29]]},"reference":[{"key":"2024040611512787300_CIT0001","first-page":"670","article-title":"Receiving support when older: What makes it ok","volume-title":"Gerontologist","author":"Allen","year":"2014"},{"key":"2024040611512787300_CIT0002","first-page":"356","article-title":"Older people living alone at home with terminal cancer","volume-title":"European Journal of Cancer Care","author":"Aoun","year":"2016"},{"key":"2024040611512787300_CIT0003","first-page":"199","article-title":"Gender, informal social support networks, and elderly urban African Americans","volume-title":"Journal of Aging Studies","author":"Barker","year":"1998"},{"key":"2024040611512787300_CIT0004","volume-title":"3. 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