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Health and living arrangements among older Americans — does marriage matter?
Author(s)	Jersey Liang, Joseph Winchester Brown, Neal M Krause
Journal title	Journal of Aging and Health, vol 17, no 3, June 2005
Pages	pp 305-335
Source	http://www.sagepub.com
Keywords	Health [elderly] ; Mental health [elderly] ; Living patterns ; Married persons ; Single persons ; Longitudinal surveys ; United States of America.
Annotation	Data for 1993, 1995 and 1998 from the Asset and Health Dynamics Among the Oldest Old (AHEAD) study were used to examine how older Americans' physical and mental health influence living arrangements, and whether these effects differ for married and unmarried people. Functional status and cognitive functioning are significantly associated with living arrangements among those not married. Health conditions exert no significant effects among those married. Given the same functional status, unmarried older people are significantly more likely than their married counterparts to live with their children or with others. These results underscore the critical role of the spouse in influencing living arrangements, and provide new evidence supporting that assertion that a spouse is the greatest guarantee of support in old age and the importance of marriage as an institution. (RH).
Accession Number	CPA-050613209 A
Classmark	CC: D: K7: SLP: SQ: 3J: 7T
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