10:832:302 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: List Of Sovereign States By Suicide Rate, Basic Income, Assisted Living
30 Oct 2017
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Factors affecting size and age of population: 1. ) Mortality rate- has impact on aging population; rate has dropped in last century: 3. ) What kind of money will we be spending: some variables affecting elders, 1. ) Marital status: 3/4 men married; 1/2 women married, women are 3x more likely than men to be widowed, men have shorter average life expectancies, men marry younger women, men more likely to remarry if lost spouse, 2. ) Living arrangements: living alone: more likely to live in poverty than those with spouses, only about 5% of elderly live in nursing homes, closely linked to income, health status, and availability of caregivers, 3. ) Geographic distribution: some states age because of inward migration of elders, others age because their young people leave, 4. ) Economic status: economic position has improved since 1970s, by 2013, less than 10% lived in poverty, largest percentage of income from social security, 5. )
