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Formal assistance among Dutch older adults
— an examination of the gendered nature of marital history | | Author(s) | Andrew V Wister, Pearl A Dykstra |
| Journal title | Canadian Journal on Aging, vol 19, no 4, Winter 2000 |
| Pages | pp 508-535 |
| Keywords | Services ; Domiciliary services ; Usage [services] ; Older men ; Older women ; Marital status ; Social surveys ; Netherlands. |
| Annotation | Drawing from life course theory, this article examines gender differences in formal assistance among functionally dependent Dutch older people within five distinct marital history groups: first-married, never-married, divorced (not remarried), widowed (not remarried), and the remarried. A subset of data from the 1992 Dutch study, Living Arrangements and Social Networks of Older Adults (NESTOR-LSN) was used to to test hypotheses regarding the interrelationships between gender and measures of: age and functional health; socio-economic status; and the social network. Results indicate gendered patterns of formal help use among the first-married, never-married and widowed. Consistent with other studies, older first-married women are some three times more likely to receive formal help than are men. Never married women are a third as likely to use formal help than never-married men. Among the widowed, men with poorer functional health are more likely to receive formal help than are their female counterparts, suggesting contrasting patterns of help-seeking behaviour and social vulnerability. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-010219211 A |
| Classmark | I: N: QLD: BC: BD: SLM: 3F: 76H |
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