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Nativity and older women's health
— constructed reliance in the Health and Retirement Study | | Author(s) | Cynthia Buckley, Jacqueline L Angel, Dennis Donahue |
| Journal title | Journal of Women & Aging, vol 12, nos 3/4, 2000 |
| Pages | pp 21-38 |
| Source | http://www.tandfonline.com |
| Keywords | Immigrants ; Ethnic groups ; Older women ; Health [elderly] ; Social characteristics [elderly] ; Living patterns ; Social surveys ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | Gender and nativity are known risk factors for physical and economic dependency. Immigrant women are particularly disadvantaged because of their greater lack of social and economic resources. In this study, it is investigated how women immigrants co-ordinate and utilize various support systems as they approach retirement age, as well as how choices and constraints affect their physical well-being. Experiences throughout the life course play a role in the maintenance of health, but the pre-retirement years are particularly crucial to the establishment of patterns of reliance to be used in later life. Data from the US Health and Retirement Survey (HRS) were used to examine the effects of economic resources, social support and family ties. For the women in this study, demographic characteristics, such as Hispanic ethnicity and low education are strong risk factors for poor health. Findings also indicate that reliance patterns across resource domains do not differ significantly by nativity, and that both economic and familial resource access significantly lessens the risk of poor health for both native and foreign-born women. (KJ/RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-010222202 A |
| Classmark | TJ: TK: BD: CC: F: K7: 3F: 7T |
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