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Living arrangements and marital status
— a register-based study of survival of older adults in Belgium at the beginning of the 21st century | | Author(s) | Anne Herm, Jon Anson, Michel Poulain |
| Journal title | Ageing and Society, vol 36, no 10, November 2016 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press, November 2016 |
| Pages | pp 2141-2162 |
| Source | journals.cambridge.org/aso |
| Keywords | Living patterns ; Marital status ; Health [elderly] ; Life span ; At risk ; Death ; Correlation ; Belgium. |
| Annotation | Being married reduces the mortality risk for older people. More generally, living arrangements that include co-residence with a source of support and a close care-giver are associated with a lower mortality risk. The authors build a detailed typology of private and collective living arrangements, including marital status, and check its association with mortality risks, controlling for health status. The authors use administrative data from the population register to identify the living arrangements for those aged 65 years and over living in Belgium as at 1 January 2002, and their survival during the year 2002. Data on health status are extracted from the 2001 census. The authors use binary logistic regression with the probability of death as an outcome, with living arrangements, health, age and gender as covariates. Results show that mortality is more closely associated with actual living arrangements than with marital status. This association is age and gender-specific, and remains even at very old ages. Living with a spouse is confirmed to be beneficial for survival, but in older age living alone becomes more favourable. Of all living arrangements, older people living in religious communities experience the lowest mortality risk, whereas those living in nursing homes experience the highest risk. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-161021009 A |
| Classmark | K7: SLM: CC: BG6: CA3: CW: 49: 76E |
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