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| Housing issues and realities facing grandparent caregivers who are renters | | Author(s) | Esme Fuller-Thomson, Meredith Minkler |
| Journal title | The Gerontologist, vol 43, no 1, February 2003 |
| Pages | pp 92-98 |
| Keywords | Grandparents as carers ; Economic status [elderly] ; Rented dwellings ; Social surveys ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | Data obtained from the US Census 2000 Supplementary Survey (C2SS), a nationally representative survey of 700,000 households with a response rate of 96.8%, was used to focus on the 2,639 respondents who were grandparent caregivers living in rented housing. Of the estimated 2,350,000 grandparent caregivers in the US in 2000, 26% were renters, almost a third of whom were spending 30% or more of their income on rent. For a quarter of a million grandparent caregiver renters living below the poverty line, 60% were spending at least 30% of their household income on rent, and 3 in 10 were living in overcrowded conditions. Grandparent caregivers who are renters thus represent a particularly vulnerable population. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-030417004 A |
| Classmark | P6:SW: F:W: KEE: 3F: 7T |
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