| |
Centre for Policy on Ageing | |
 | |
|
Racial differences in formal long-term care
— does the timing of parenthood play a role? | | Author(s) | Kathleen A Cagney, Emily M Agree |
| Journal title | Journals of Gerontology: Series B, Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, vol 60B, no 3, May 2005 |
| Pages | pp S137-S145 |
| Source | http://www.geron.org |
| Keywords | Ethnic groups ; Parents ; Life span ; Home visits [doctors] ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | Differential effects of teen childbearing across American racial groups indicate differential vulnerability to long-term care (LTC) needs among early parents. Linking measures for the 1999 National Long-Term Care Survey with Medicare claims (1989-1993), the authors model age at first use of institutional (skilled nursing facility) use and home health as competing risks, using a Cox proportional hazards model. Early parenthood was found to accelerate first use of home health in Whites, but delays use in Blacks. The likelihood of any LTC use by race group converges as timing in parenthood increases. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-051121209 A |
| Classmark | TK: SR: BG6: L5H: 7T |
Data © Centre for Policy on Ageing |
|
| ...from the Ageinfo database published by Centre for Policy on Ageing. |
| |
|