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Moving considerations
— a longitudinal analysis of parent-child residential proximity for older Americans | | Author(s) | Yiduo Zhang, Michal Engelman, Emily M Agree |
| Journal title | Research on Aging, vol 35, no 6, November 2013 |
| Publisher | Sage, November 2013 |
| Pages | pp 663-687 |
| Source | roa.sagepub.com |
| Keywords | Geographical distance ; House removal ; Children [offspring] ; Parents ; Children [offspring] as carers ; Longitudinal surveys ; Australasia. |
| Annotation | Residential proximity is an important indicator of family members' availability to provide assistance to each other. The authors investigate proximity-enhancing moves by older parents and their children and the reasons for such moves. They use the 2000-2004 waves of the US Health and Retirement Study (HRS) to fit multinomial logit models examining 2-year residential transitions for parents and children who were living 10 or more miles apart at baseline. The results show that family members collectively adjust intergenerational proximity to facilitate mutual support. Despite the common assumption that older parents move closer to their children to receive assistance, more than two-thirds of all proximity-enhancing moves are made by adult children. While greater anticipated longevity raises the probability that older parents will move closer to their children, parents' anticipated longevity does not influence children's decisions to move. The inclusion of individual variability in anticipated longevity in the life course framework helps us to account for relocation that precedes declines in health or increases in the need for support. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-131101202 A |
| Classmark | RJ: TNH: SS: SR: P6:SS: 3J: 7Y |
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