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| Aged communities and health-care reform attitudes in the United States of America | | Author(s) | Brittany H Bramlett |
| Journal title | Ageing and Society, vol 37, no 6, July 2017 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press, July 2017 |
| Pages | pp 1134-1155 |
| Source | cambridge.org/aso |
| Keywords | Preventative medicine ; Social policy ; Attitude ; Retirement communities ; Correlation ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | Older adults and baby boomers in the United States have been more opposed than supportive of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), but what about older adults living in aged communities? The aged community (i.e. retirement community) is a social context that is important for understanding individuals' political attitudes and behaviours. We know that social contexts often constrain the information available within the community. Also, recent work indicates that this happens with the aged social context as well. Older adults living among concentrations of their peers are more politically knowledgeable than older adults without the same neighbourhood context. The author hypothesises that older adults living in aged communities will be more supportive of the ACA than their peers without the same context, because they know more about the ACA and its age-related benefits. To test this hypothesis, the author uses data from the Cooperative Congressional Election Studies for the years 2009-2012, and assesses whether the aged context has had an impact on residents' attitudes towards health-care reform, the ACA, specifically. She finds that older residents of aged communities are more likely to report supportive attitudes in 2010 and 2012 than older residents of communities without a significant older adult presence. There is no statistically significant aged context effect in 2009 and 2011. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-170616202 A |
| Classmark | LK2: TM2: DP: ROA: 49: 7T |
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