TY - JOUR TT - Sources of social support of elderly immigrants and their effects on psychosocial functionality AU - Akın, Elmas PY - 2015 DA - December DO - 10.24289/ijsser.279171 JF - International Journal of Social Sciences and Education Research PB - Mahmut DEMİR WT - DergiPark SN - 2149-5939 SP - 949 EP - 959 VL - 1 IS - 3 KW - Old Age KW - Elderly Immigrants KW - Social Support N2 - In the changing and developing transforming social structures, the demographic structure is changing; the elderly population is increasing with the reason of development of technology and extension of human life day by day. ‘Aging’ which expressed as the process which from starting to ending of the live, may confront individuals with new problematics. Definition of ‘elderly immigrants’ emerges with the immigration case get involved to process too. Individuals accumulate to social capital during their lives; being ‘I, we’ with this accumulation of social capital; see themselves as a whole with their environment. Especially elderly immigrants, cannot aging in these accumulation social networks; they face with the issues not only posed by aging but also being immigrant as well. In this article, the concepts of aging and agedness, theories of aging and definition of elderly immigration are examined in the light of the literature reviews. In addition to these studies, sources of social support of elderly immigrants to psychosocial functioning effects are get discussed; evaluation is done in the terms of old welfare and suggestions are presented. UR - https://doi.org/10.24289/ijsser.279171 L1 - https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/download/article-file/356086 ER -