Differences in the Household Composition of Elders by Age, Gender, and Area of Residence

Coward, Raymond T.; Cutler, Stephen J.; Schmidt, Frederick E.

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“…Among these households, we distinguish multigenerational households—those that contain MHUs from multiple generations, such as households including adult children and their elderly parents—from all other types of extended‐family or nonkin households. Following prior work, we infer the relationships among MHUs based on relationship to the householder (Coward, Cutler, & Schmidt, 1989; Glick et al, 1997; Schmertmann, Boyd, Serow, & White, 2000). For example, in a household with three MHUs, if the first MHU head was the householder, the second was the child of the householder, and the third was the sibling of the householder, we would code the third MHU as the uncle or aunt of the second MHU.…”

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Does a House Divided Stand? Kinship and the Continuity of Shared Living Arrangements

Glick

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2011

Journal of Marriage and Family

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Shared living arrangements can provide housing, economies of scale, and other instrumental support and may become an important resource in times of economic constraint. But the extent to which such living arrangements experience continuity or rapid change in composition is unclear. Previous research on extended-family households tended to focus on factors that trigger the onset of coresidence, including life course events or changes in health status and related economic needs. Relying on longitudinal data from 9,932 households in the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP), the analyses demonstrate that the distribution of economic resources in the household also influences the continuity of shared living arrangements. The results suggest that multigenerational households of parents and adult children experience greater continuity in composition when one individual or couple has a disproportionate share of the economic resources in the household. Other coresidential households, those shared by other kin or nonkin, experience greater continuity when resources are more evenly distributed.

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Does a House Divided Stand? Kinship and the Continuity of Shared Living Arrangements

Glick

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2011

Journal of Marriage and Family

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“…Areas with dispersed populations are believed to have fewer health care resources available and the residents of these areas experience substantial difficulties in accessing social and health services (Clarke and . Recent demographic studies have distineuished between areas in terms of both a metro-" politan-nonmetropolitan county dimension and an urban-ma1 area dimension (Coward, Cutler and Schmidt, 1989;Fuguitt, Brown and Beale, 1989). The present study is unable to catego& respondents' location by more than the metropolitan status of the county because PSAs are delineated by county.…”

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Volume Distribution of AAA Sponsored Services and Service Use by Disabled Older Adults

Clark

1994

Home Health Care Services Quarterly

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Recent studies have suggested that a lower availability and lesser range of formal long term care services may, in part, explain lower rates of formal service use by older rural as compared to older urban residents. Studies of residence differences in the availability of Area Agency on Aging sponsored services, however, have not adjusted measures according to the size of service populations. This study assesses the volume of personal and home care services available to a national sample of disabled older persons through Area Agencies on Aging (AAA) and shows that nometropolitan respondents have a greater volume of AAA sponsored services available per capita than metropolitan respondents. Moreover, in general, per capita service availability ratios are not associated with formal service use over a two-year period among 2.800 disabled noninstitutionalized older adults. The importance of gathering data on services available at the community level in order to more effectively assess the role of social context in service use is discussed.

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“…option particularly when they suffer from health problems (Mickus et al, 1997). One finding was that the percentage of elderly persons residing in multi-generational households increases starting at 75 years of age (Coward et al, 1989). Elderly women suffer greater limitations and disabilities and are more likely to live with family for the care they provide (Silverstein et al, 1995).…”

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“…Mudarse con descendientes es un recurso del que se benefician especialmente cuando sufren problemas de salud (Mickus et al, 1997). Un argumento esgrimido es que, a partir de los 75 años, conforme asciende la edad crece el porcentaje de personas mayores residiendo en hogares plurigeneracionales (Coward et al, 1989). Las ancianas padecen limitaciones y discapacidades más severas, siendo particularmente propensas a convivir con familiares para ser cuidadas (Silverstein et al, 1995).…”

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Formas de convivencia de las personas mayores

Doblas¹

2024

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ResumenEste trabajo analiza por qué están cambiando en España las formas de convivencia de las personas mayores. En su planteamiento teórico distingue entre dos realidades básicas: la independencia residencial, propia de quienes comparten un hogar bipersonal con la pareja y de quienes viven en solitario, frente a la convivencia con familiares de otras generaciones. A nivel empírico utiliza una estrategia metodológica cualitativa, cuya técnica de producción de información es el grupo de discusión, y de análisis, la Teoría Fundamentada. La hemos aplicado sobre un perfil específico de actores implicados en este proceso social, las personas mayores que viven solas. Nuestros resultados profundizan en los motivos por los cuales la convivencia intergeneracional no deja de ceder terreno a la independencia residencial. Key words AbstractThis article examines why living arrangements among the elderly are changing in Spain. Although this process has been going on for decades, it remains under-examined from a sociological point of view. Our theoretical framework distinguishes between two basic residential forms among the elderly population: Residential independence, which refers to those living in two-person households with a partner, as well as those living alone; and intergenerational cohabitation, in which the elderly live with family members of other generations. We have used a qualitative methodological strategy, using discussion groups as a technique to generate data, and grounded theory as our approach for data analysis. Our analysis is focused on a specific group involved in this social process: the elderly who live alone. Our findings reveal a number of subjective reasons for the continuing growth of residential independence among the elderly in detriment to intergenerational cohabitation. Cómo citarLópez Doblas, Juan (2018 IntroduccIónDesde hace tiempo todos los países occidentales vienen registrando las mismas pautas de cambio familiar. La nupcialidad ha descendido, se han elevado la edad al matrimonio y a la maternidad, han aumentado los divorcios, las uniones de hecho y los nacimientos de mujeres no casadas, ha caído la fecundidad, etc. Todo ello se enmarca en la Segunda Transición Demográfica, en la que los valores culturales desempeñan un papel esencial (Lesthaeghe, 2010). Con respecto a los hogares, objeto de nuestro estudio, los cambios también son enormes. Está reduciéndose su tamaño medio y creciendo el porcentaje de los habitados por una persona sola o una pareja sin hijos, mientras disminuyen los de estructura compleja y la convivencia intergeneracional . En el extranjero, muchos autores destacan a las personas mayores como protagonistas de estos cambios, habiendo impulsado una profunda transformación en sus estilos de vida y sus relaciones familiares. En España, sin embargo, las investigaciones sociológi-cas no han reconocido apenas este hecho, pese a que sus modos de convivencia muestran las mismas tendencias que en otras sociedades occidentales (tabla 1). Marco teórIcoEntre los modos de vida de la...

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Differences in the Household Composition of Elders by Age, Gender, and Area of Residence

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Does a House Divided Stand? Kinship and the Continuity of Shared Living Arrangements

Does a House Divided Stand? Kinship and the Continuity of Shared Living Arrangements

Volume Distribution of AAA Sponsored Services and Service Use by Disabled Older Adults

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