HLTHAGE 1BB3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Habitat, Personalization, Symbolic Interactionism
31 May 2016
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Most older adult are living alone or with spouse. Women are more likely to be living with their children, family or friends. Women are more likely to live alone because their spouse has died (this is because women are living longer and men die sooner; also that women marry older men) Public pensions enable women to live alone (normative for seniors to live alone after loss of spouse) Decrease in the proportion of women living alone. Between 2001 and 2011, the proportion of older women who lived alone decline while the proportion of older men alone remained relatively stable. The largest decrease occurred among women aged 80 to 84: in 2011, 40. 2% of women between the ages of 80 to 84 lived alone, down from 46. 1% in. Explanatory factors: women are getting healthier, increasing support for common-law relationships for seniors. Shenk et al. (2004): purpose of the study.
