Drawing on the author's long-standing research into housing issues surrounding the ageing society, this book examines this phenomenon which is now a concern in many mature economies.

Misa Izuhara is a Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Urban Studies, the School for Policy Studies, University of Bristol, UK

1. Introduction 2. Intergenerational Reciprocity: Cultural Practice 3. Housing Assets and Intergenerational Transfer in a Global Context 4. Long Term Care and the Shifting the State-Family Boundaries 5. Accumulation of Housing Wealth and Family Relations 6. Plans for Disposal of Assets 7. Rethinking the 'Generational Contact' Between Housing, Care and Inheritance 8. Conclusion