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    • A saturated map of common genetic variants associated with human height 

      Yengo, Loïc; Vedantam, Sailaja; Marouli, Eirini; Sidorenko, Julia; Bartell, Eric; Sakaue, Saori; Graff, Marielisa; Eliasen, Anders U.; Jiang, Yunxuan; Raghavan, Sridharan; Miao, Jenkai; Arias, Joshua D.; Graham, Sarah E.; Mukamel, Ronen E.; Spracklen, Cassandra N.; Yin, Xianyong; Chen, Shyh-Huei; Ferreira, Teresa; Highland, Heather H.; Ji, Yingjie; Karaderi, Tugce; Lin, Kuang; Lüll, Kreete; Malden, Deborah E.; Medina-Gomez, Carolina; Machado, Moara; Moore, Amy; Rüeger, Sina; Sim, Xueling; Vrieze, Scott; Ahluwalia, Tarunveer S.; Akiyama, Masato; Allison, Matthew A.; Alvarez, Marcus; Andersen, Mette K.; Ani, Alireza; Appadurai, Vivek; Arbeeva, Liubov; Bhaskar, Seema; Bielak, Lawrence F.; Bollepalli, Sailalitha; Bonnycastle, Lori L.; Bork-Jensen, Jette; Bradfield, Jonathan P.; Bradford, Yuki; Braund, Peter S.; Brody, Jennifer A.; Burgdorf, Kristoffer S.; Cade, Brian E.; Cai, Hui; Cai, Qiuyin; Campbell, Archie; Cañadas-Garre, Marisa; Catamo, Eulalia; Chai, Jin-Fang; Chai, Xiaoran; Chang, Li-Ching; Chang, Yi-Cheng; Chen, Chien-Hsiun; Chesi, Alessandra; Choi, Seung Hoan; Chung, Ren-Hua; Cocca, Massimiliano; Concas, Maria Pina; Couture, Christian; Cuellar-Partida, Gabriel; Danning, Rebecca; Daw, E. Warwick; Degenhard, Frauke; Delgado, Graciela E.; Delitala, Alessandro; Demirkan, Ayse; Deng, Xuan; Devineni, Poornima; Dietl, Alexander; Dimitriou, Maria; Dimitrov, Latchezar; Dorajoo, Rajkumar; Ekici, Arif B.; Engmann, Jorgen E.; Fairhurst-Hunter, Zammy; Farmaki, Aliki-Eleni; Faul, Jessica D.; Fernandez-Lopez, Juan-Carlos; Forer, Lukas; Francescatto, Margherita; Freitag-Wolf, Sandra; Fuchsberger, Christian; Galesloot, Tessel E.; Gao, Yan; Gao, Zishan; Geller, Frank; Giannakopoulou, Olga; Giulianini, Franco; Gjesing, Anette P.; Goel, Anuj; Gordon, Scott D.; Gorski, Mathias; Grove, Jakob; Guo, Xiuqing; Gustafsson, Stefan; Haessler, Jeffrey; Hansen, Thomas; Havulinna, Aki S.; Haworth, Simon J.; He, Jing; Heard-Costa, Nancy; Hebbar, Prashantha; Hindy, George; Ho, Yuk-Lam A.; Hofer, Edith; Holliday, Elizabeth; Horn, Katrin; Hornsby, Whitney E.; Hottenga, Jouke-Jan; Huang, Hongyan; Huang, Jie; Huerta-Chagoya, Alicia; Huffman, Jennifer E.; Hung, Yi-Jen; Huo, Shaofeng; Hwang, Mi Yeong; Iha, Hiroyuki; Ikeda, Daisuke D.; Isono, Masato; Jackson, Anne U.; Jäger, Susanne; Jansen, Iris E.; Johansson, Ingegerd; Jonas, Jost B.; Jonsson, Anna; Jørgensen, Torben; Kalafati, Ioanna-Panagiota; Kanai, Masahiro; Kanoni, Stavroula; Kårhus, Line L.; Kasturiratne, Anuradhani; Katsuya, Tomohiro; Kawaguchi, Takahisa; Kember, Rachel L.; Kentistou, Katherine A.; Kim, Han-Na; Kim, Young Jin; Kleber, Marcus E.; Knol, Maria J.; Kurbasic, Azra; Lauzon, Marie; Le, Phuong; Lea, Rodney; Lee, Jong-Young; Leonard, Hampton L.; Li, Shengchao A.; Li, Xiaohui; Li, Xiaoyin; Liang, Jingjing; Lin, Honghuang; Lin, Shih-Yi; Liu, Jun; Liu, Xueping; Lo, Ken Sin; Long, Jirong; Lores-Motta, Laura; Luan, Jian’an; Lyssenko, Valeriya; Lyytikäinen, Leo-Pekka; Mahajan, Anubha; Mamakou, Vasiliki; Mangino, Massimo; Manichaikul, Ani; Marten, Jonathan; Mattheisen, Manuel; Mavarani, Laven; McDaid, Aaron F.; Meidtner, Karina; Melendez, Tori L.; Mercader, Josep M.; Milaneschi, Yuri; Miller, Jason E.; Millwood, Iona Y.; Mishra, Pashupati P.; Mitchell, Ruth E.; Møllehave, Line T.; Morgan, Anna; Mucha, Soeren; Munz, Matthias; Nakatochi, Masahiro; Nelson, Christopher P.; Nethander, Maria; Nho, Chu Won; Nielsen, Aneta A.; Nolte, Ilja M.; Nongmaithem, Suraj S.; Noordam, Raymond; Ntalla, Ioanna; Nutile, Teresa; Pandit, Anita; Christofidou, Paraskevi; Pärna, Katri; Pauper, Marc; Petersen, Eva R. B.; Petersen, Liselotte V.; Pitkänen, Niina; Polašek, Ozren; Poveda, Alaitz; Preuss, Michael H.; Pyarajan, Saiju; Raffield, Laura M.; Rakugi, Hiromi; Ramirez, Julia; Rasheed, Asif; Raven, Dennis; Rayner, Nigel W.; Riveros, Carlos; Rohde, Rebecca; Ruggiero, Daniela; Ruotsalainen, Sanni E.; Ryan, Kathleen A.; Sabater-Lleal, Maria; Saxena, Richa; Scholz, Markus; Sendamarai, Anoop; Shen, Botong; Shi, Jingchunzi; Shin, Jae Hun; Sidore, Carlo; Sitlani, Colleen M.; Slieker, Roderick C.; Smit, Roelof A. J.; Smith, Albert V.; Smith, Jennifer A.; Smyth, Laura J.; Southam, Lorraine; Steinthorsdottir, Valgerdur; Sun, Liang; Takeuchi, Fumihiko; Tallapragada, Divya Sri Priyanka; Taylor, Kent D.; Tayo, Bamidele O.; Tcheandjieu, Catherine; Terzikhan, Natalie; Tesolin, Paola; Teumer, Alexander; Theusch, Elizabeth; Thompson, Deborah J.; Thorleifsson, Gudmar; Timmers, Paul R. H. J.; Trompet, Stella; Turman, Constance; Vaccargiu, Simona; van der Laan, Sander W.; van der Most, Peter J.; van Klinken, Jan B.; van Setten, Jessica; Verma, Shefali S.; Verweij, Niek; Veturi, Yogasudha; Wang, Carol A.; Wang, Chaolong; Wang, Lihua; Wang, Zhe; Warren, Helen R.; Bin Wei, Wen; Wickremasinghe, Ananda R.; Wielscher, Matthias; Wiggins, Kerri L.; Winsvold, Bendik K S; Wong, Andrew; Wu, Yang; Wuttke, Matthias; Xia, Rui; Xie, Tian; Yamamoto, Ken; Yang, Jingyun; Yao, Jie; Young, Hannah; Yousri, Noha A.; Yu, Lei; Zeng, Lingyao; Zhang, Weihua; Zhang, Xinyuan; Zhao, Jing-Hua; Zhao, Wei; Zhou, Wei; Zimmermann, Martina E.; Zoledziewska, Magdalena; Adair, Linda S.; Adams, Hieab H. H.; Aguilar-Salinas, Carlos A.; Al-Mulla, Fahd; Arnett, Donna K.; Asselbergs, Folkert W.; Åsvold, Bjørn Olav; Attia, John; Banas, Bernhard; Bandinelli, Stefania; Bennett, David A.; Bergler, Tobias; Bharadwaj, Dwaipayan; Biino, Ginevra; Bisgaard, Hans; Boerwinkle, Eric; Böger, Carsten A.; Bønnelykke, Klaus; Boomsma, Dorret I.; Børglum, Anders D.; Borja, Judith B.; Bouchard, Claude; Bowden, Donald W.; Brandslund, Ivan; Brumpton, Ben Michael; Buring, Julie E.; Caulfield, Mark J.; Chambers, John C.; Chandak, Giriraj R.; Chanock, Stephen J.; Chaturvedi, Nish; Chen, Yii-Der Ida; Chen, Zhengming; Cheng, Ching-Yu; Christophersen, Ingrid E.; Ciullo, Marina; Cole, John W.; Collins, Francis S.; Cooper, Richard S.; Cruz, Miguel; Cucca, Francesco; Cupples, L. Adrienne; Cutler, Michael J.; Damrauer, Scott M.; Dantoft, Thomas M.; de Borst, Gert J.; de Groot, Lisette C. P. G. M.; De Jager, Philip L.; de Kleijn, Dominique P. V.; Janaka de Silva, de; Dedoussis, George V.; den Hollander, Anneke I.; Du, Shufa; Easton, Douglas F.; Elders, Petra J. M.; Eliassen, A. Heather; Ellinor, Patrick T.; Elmståhl, Sölve; Erdmann, Jeanette; Evans, Michele K.; Fatkin, Diane; Feenstra, Bjarke; Feitosa, Mary F.; Ferrucci, Luigi; Ford, Ian; Fornage, Myriam; Franke, Andre; Franks, Paul W.; Freedman, Barry I.; Gasparini, Paolo; Gieger, Christian; Girotto, Giorgia; Goddard, Michael E.; Golightly, Yvonne M.; Gonzalez-Villalpando, Clicerio; Gordon-Larsen, Penny; Grallert, Harald; Grant, Struan F. A.; Grarup, Niels; Griffiths, Lyn; Gudnason, Vilmundur; Haiman, Christopher; Hakonarson, Hakon; Hansen, Torben; Hartman, Catharina A.; Hattersley, Andrew T.; Hayward, Caroline; Heckbert, Susan R.; Heng, Chew-Kiat; Hengstenberg, Christian; Hewitt, Alex W.; Hishigaki, Haretsugu; Hoyng, Carel B.; Huang, Paul L.; Huang, Wei; Hunt, Steven C.; Hveem, Kristian; Hyppönen, Elina; Iacono, William G.; Ichihara, Sahoko; Ikram, M. Arfan; Isasi, Carmen R.; Jackson, Rebecca D.; Jarvelin, Marjo-Riitta; Jin, Zi-Bing; Jöckel, Karl-Heinz; Joshi, Peter K.; Jousilahti, Pekka; Jukema, J. Wouter; Kähönen, Mika; Kamatani, Yoichiro; Kang, Kui Dong; Kaprio, Jaakko; Kardia, Sharon L. R.; Karpe, Fredrik; Kato, Norihiro; Kee, Frank; Kessler, Thorsten; Khera, Amit V.; Khor, Chiea Chuen; Kiemeney, Lambertus A. L. M.; Kim, Bong-Jo; Kim, Eung Kweon; Kim, Hyung-Lae; Kirchhof, Paulus; Kivimaki, Mika; Koh, Woon-Puay; Koistinen, Heikki A.; Kolovou, Genovefa D.; Kooner, Jaspal S.; Kooperberg, Charles; Köttgen, Anna; Kovacs, Peter; Kraaijeveld, Adriaan; Kraft, Peter; Krauss, Ronald M.; Kumari, Meena; Kutalik, Zoltan; Laakso, Markku; Lange, Leslie A.; Langenberg, Claudia; Launer, Lenore J.; Le Marchand, Loic; Lee, Hyejin; Lee, Nanette R.; Lehtimäki, Terho; Li, Huaixing; Li, Liming; Lieb, Wolfgang; Lin, Xu; Lind, Lars; Linneberg, Allan; Liu, Ching-Ti; Liu, Jianjun; Loeffler, Markus; London, Barry; Lubitz, Steven A.; Lye, Stephen J.; Mackey, David A.; Mägi, Reedik; Magnusson, Patrik K. E.; Marcus, Gregory M.; Vidal, Pedro Marques; Martin, Nicholas G.; März, Winfried; Matsuda, Fumihiko; McGarrah, Robert W.; McGue, Matt; McKnight, Amy Jayne; Medland, Sarah E.; Mellström, Dan; Metspalu, Andres; Mitchell, Braxton D.; Mitchell, Paul; Mook-Kanamori, Dennis O.; Morris, Andrew D.; Mucci, Lorelei A.; Munroe, Patricia B.; Nalls, Mike A.; Nazarian, Saman; Nelson, Amanda E.; Neville, Matt J.; Newton-Cheh, Christopher; Nielsen, Christopher Sivert; Nöthen, Markus M.; Ohlsson, Claes; Oldehinkel, Albertine J.; Orozco, Lorena; Pahkala, Katja; Pajukanta, Päivi; Palmer, Colin N. A.; Parra, Esteban J.; Pattaro, Cristian; Pedersen, Oluf; Pennell, Craig E.; Penninx, Brenda W. J. H.; Perusse, Louis; Peters, Annette; Peyser, Patricia A.; Porteous, David J.; Posthuma, Danielle; Power, Chris; Pramstaller, Peter P.; Province, Michael A.; Qi, Qibin; Qu, Jia; Rader, Daniel J.; Raitakari, Olli T.; Ralhan, Sarju; Rallidis, Loukianos S.; Rao, Dabeeru C.; Redline, Susan; Reilly, Dermot F.; Reiner, Alexander P.; Rhee, Sang Youl; Ridker, Paul M.; Rienstra, Michiel; Ripatti, Samuli; Ritchie, Marylyn D.; Roden, Dan M.; Rosendaal, Frits Richard; Rotter, Jerome I.; Rudan, Igor; Rutters, Femke; Sabanayagam, Charumathi; Saleheen, Danish; Salomaa, Veikko; Samani, Nilesh J.; Sanghera, Dharambir K.; Sattar, Naveed; Schmidt, Börge; Schmidt, Helena; Schmidt, Reinhold; Schulze, Matthias B.; Schunkert, Heribert; Scott, Laura J.; Scott, Rodney J.; Sever, Peter; Shiroma, Eric J.; Shoemaker, M. Benjamin; Shu, Xiao-Ou; Simonsick, Eleanor M.; Sims, Mario; Singh, Jai Rup; Singleton, Andrew B.; Sinner, Moritz F.; Smith, J. Gustav; Snieder, Harold; Spector, Tim D.; Stampfer, Meir J.; Stark, Klaus J.; Strachan, David P.; ‘t Hart, Leen M.; Tabara, Yasuharu; Tang, Hua; Tardif, Jean-Claude; Thanaraj, Thangavel A.; Timpson, Nicholas J.; Tönjes, Anke; Tremblay, Angelo; Tuomi, Tiinamaija; Tuomilehto, Jaakko; Tusié-Luna, Maria-Teresa; Uitterlinden, Andre G.; van Dam, Rob M.; van der Harst, Pim; Van der Velde, Nathalie; van Duijn, Cornelia M.; van Schoor, Natasja M.; Vitart, Veronique; Völker, Uwe; Vollenweider, Peter; Völzke, Henry; Wacher-Rodarte, Niels H.; Walker, Mark; Wang, Ya Xing; Wareham, Nicholas J.; Watanabe, Richard M.; Watkins, Hugh; Weir, David R.; Werge, Thomas M.; Widen, Elisabeth; Wilkens, Lynne R.; Willemsen, Gonneke; Willett, Walter C.; Wilson, James F.; Wong, Tien-Yin; Woo, Jeong-Taek; Wright, Alan F.; Wu, Jer-Yuarn; Xu, Huichun; Yajnik, Chittaranjan S.; Yokota, Mitsuhiro; Yuan, Jian-Min; Zeggini, Eleftheria; Zemel, Babette S.; Zheng, Wei; Zhu, Xiaofeng; Zmuda, Joseph M.; Zonderman, Alan B.; Zwart, John Anker Henrik; Partida, Gabriel Cuellar; Sun, Yan; Croteau-Chonka, Damien; Vonk, Judith M.; Chanock, Stephen; Le Marchand, Loic; Chasman, Daniel I.; Cho, Yoon Shin; Heid, Iris M.; McCarthy, Mark I.; Ng, Maggie C. Y.; O’Donnell, Christopher J.; Rivadeneira, Fernando; Thorsteinsdottir, Unnur; Sun, Yan V.; Tai, E. Shyong; Boehnke, Michael; Deloukas, Panos; Justice, Anne E.; Lindgren, Cecilia M.; Loos, Ruth J. F.; Mohlke, Karen L.; North, Kari E.; Stefansson, Kari; Walters, Robin G.; Winkler, Thomas W.; Young, Kristin L.; Loh, Po-Ru; Yang, Jian; Esko, Tõnu; Assimes, Themistocles L.; Auton, Adam; Abecasis, Goncalo R.; Willer, Cristen J.; Locke, Adam E.; Berndt, Sonja I.; Lettre, Guillaume; Frayling, Timothy M.; Okada, Yukinori; Wood, Andrew R.; Visscher, Peter M.; Hirschhorn, Joel N. (Nature;Volume 610, Issue 7933, Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022-10-12)
      Common single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) are predicted to collectively explain 40–50% of phenotypic variation in human height, but identifying the specific variants and associated regions requires huge sample sizes1. ...

    • Self-esteem trajectories over three decades predict opposition to social equality in midlife 

      Fluit, Anne-Marie; Kunst, Jonas R.; Bierwiaczonek, Kinga; von Soest, Tilmann (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      Although life trajectories are frequently theorized to explain people’s attitudes toward different social groups, few studies have been able to directly assess their importance with suitable data. Addressing this gap and ...

    • Serious Mortgage Arrears among Immigrant Descendant and Native Participants in a Low-Income Public Starter Mortgage Program: Evidence from Norway 

      Aarland, Kristin; Santiago, Anna Maria (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      Although low-income homeownership programs serving vulnerable families at the lower end of the income distribution have been the focus of housing policy in many countries over the past 50 years, little is known about the ...

    • Sexual and Physical Victimization and Health Correlates Among Norwegian Adolescents 

      Frøyland, Lars Roar; Pedersen, Willy; Stefansen, Kari; von Soest, Tilmann Martin (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      Large-scale epidemiological studies have documented that many children and adolescents are exposed to different forms of victimization experiences. However, such population-based studies have rarely examined how specific ...

    • Sexual Harassment or Just Coaching? Sport Students Making Sense of Possibly Sexualising Coach Behaviours 

      Strandbu, Åse; Solstad, Gerd Marie; Stefansen, Kari; Sandvik, Morten Renslo (Social Sciences;Volume 11 / Issue 12, Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022-11-24)
      Research has shown that athletes are divided in their assessment of possibly sexualising behaviours from coaches towards athletes. How they arrive at their conclusions has received less attention—yet it is crucial to ...

    • Sexual Harassment or Just Coaching? Sport Students Making Sense of Possibly Sexualising Coach Behaviours 

      Strandbu, Åse; Solstad, Gerd Marie; Stefansen, Kari; Sandvik, Morten Renslo (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)

    • Sickness absence among mothers caring for a child with disability: Examining the impact of mechanical and psychosocial occupational exposures 

      Wondemu, Michael Yisfashewa; Hermansen, Åsmund; Joranger, Pål; Brekke, Idunn (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)
      Background: Sickness absence is more prevalent among mothers caring for children with disability compared to those caring for non-disabled children. Working in a poor working environment may worsen the impact of care burden ...

    • Social class, disability, and institutional interactions: the case of families with disabled children in the welfare state 

      Jacobsen, Sigurd Eid (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      Research on families with disabled children has highlighted how such families experience frustration in their encounters with health and welfare services. However, less attention has been given to how these encounters ...

    • Social inequality in navigating the healthcare maze: Care trajectories from hospital to home via intermediate care for older people in Norway 

      Kvæl, Linda Aimee Hartford; Gautun, Heidi (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      Although health inequality is a growing concern, striking differences in health and life expectancy still exist across and within OECD countries. In Oslo, the largest city in Norway, life expectancy differs by up to 7 ...

    • Speaking Swedish While Black in Norway 

      Tolgensbakk, Ida (Journal of Critical Mixed Race Studies;Volume 1, Issue 2, Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      Swedes are almost unambiguously considered White in Norway and, therefore, labeled as non-strangers and non-marked. One of the most striking aspects of studying young Swedish labor migrants to the Norwegian capital is their ...

    • State crisis response versus transnational family living: An online ethnography among transnational families during the pandemic 

      Bell, Justyna; Staver, Anne Balke; Tolgensbakk, Ida (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      Transnational family living refers to the situation of maintaining relationships across national borders. It is dependent on a certain degree of flexibility from the state. As part of the crisis response to the COVID-19 ...

    • SVA-virksomhetsrapport 2022 

      Ukjent forfatter (Working paper, 2023)

    • Understanding volunteering intensity in older volunteers 

      Huang le, Giang; Aartsen, Marja (Ageing & Society;, Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022-10-12)
      Although volunteering is considered a good strategy for successful ageing, not many older adults are engaged in voluntary work and those who are do so mainly sporadically. This study focuses on time invested in volunteering ...

    • Ungdom i kommunale boliger 

      Brattbakk, Ingar; Reiersen, Frederick A. (BOVEL-notat;4, Working paper, 2023)
      Ungdom i kommunale boliger er et forskningsprosjekt utført av forskere ved Arbeidsforskningsinstituttet (AFI) og Senter for bolig- og velferdsforskning (BOVEL) ved OsloMet – storbyuniversitetet. Prosjektet er gjennomført ...

    • Unravelling the dichotomisation of care and reablement: an ethnographic exploration of contradictions between policy rhetoric and practice in Danish and Norwegian eldercare 

      Graff, Lea; Vabø, Mia (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      Reablement has been positioned as a superior care ideal distinct from home care. Drawing on cross-national ethnographic data, this article instead demonstrates how the continuity and interdependency between reablement ...

    • Vold eller foreldrekonflikt? Voldsutsatte mødres erfaringer med barneverntjenesten etter samlivsbrudd 

      Bredal, Anja; Stefansen, Kari (Tidsskriftet Norges Barnevern;Nr 2–3 – 2022 | Vol. 99, Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022-10-17)
      «Vold i hjemmet / Barnet vitne til vold i nære relasjoner» er den vanligste voldskategorien i barneverntjenestens meldingsstatistikk, men det er forsket lite på hvordan slike saker håndteres. I artikkelen undersøker vi ...

    • What Happened to Me? Ambiguity and Surety in Narratives of Intoxicated Sexual Assault 

      Stefansen, Kari; Solstad, Gerd Marie; Tokle, Rikke (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      Intoxicated sexual assault is the most common type of sexual assault but is rarely unpacked as a social phenomenon. Our analysis represents a novel approach to opening the broad category of intoxicated sexual assaults for ...

    • What’s the ‘Problem’ with Workplace Accommodation? A Disability Policy Journey Over Time 

      Vedeler, Janikke Solstad; Anvik, Cecilie Høj (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      To level the playing field in employment, the Convention of the Rights of Persons with Disabilities require state parties to ensure the provision of reasonable accommodation in the workplace. The international literature shows ...

    • Why care? How filial responsibility norms and relationship quality matter for subsequent provision of care to ageing parents 

      Vangen, Hanna; Herlofson, Katharina (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      How to meet the demands of long-term care is a pressing issue in ageing societies. In most countries, care systems depend on the capability and willingness of family members to fill the gap between existing needs and formal ...

    • Why care? How filial responsibility norms and relationship quality matter for subsequent provision of care to ageing parents 

      Vangen, Hanna; Herlofson, Katharina (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      How to meet the demands of long-term care is a pressing issue in ageing societies. In most countries, care systems depend on the capability and willingness of family members to fill the gap between existing needs and ...