In Romania, the family plays an essential role in ensuring the welfare of elderly people, but labour migration abroad disrupts this support relationship through the loss of spatial proximity between older adults and their adult children. The project aimed to investigate the situation of elderly people left behind and the ways in which intergenerational solidarity operates in these circumstances, in relation to their support and care needs. Combining quantitative and qualitative methods, we examined how intergenerational solidarity is reconfigured in this context and sought to identify the strategies families resort to in order to respond to the particular support and care needs that their children can no longer address directly.
