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Where do community-dwelling older adults with disabilities live?
— Distribution of disability in the United States of America by household composition and housing type | | Author(s) | Carrie Henning-Smith |
| Journal title | Ageing and Society, vol 37, no 6, July 2017 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press, July 2017 |
| Pages | pp 1227-1248 |
| Source | cambridge.org/aso |
| Keywords | Physical disabilities ; Living in the community ; Household and family composition ; Housing [elderly] ; Quantitative studies ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | There is limited research on the living arrangements of older adults with disabilities, especially research that combines household composition and housing characteristics. This paper addresses that gap with two complementary sets of logistic regression models: first, estimating the odds of disability by household composition and housing type; and second, estimating the odds of disability by living arrangement within gender and age sub-groups. Data come from the 2012 American Community Survey (N = 504,371 respondents aged 65+), which includes six measures of disability: cognitive, ambulatory, independent living, self-care, vision and hearing. Living alone, with children or with others was associated with higher odds of any disability, compared with living with a spouse only. Compared to those living in a single-family home, living in a mobile home or other temporary structure, or large apartment building was associated with higher odds of disability. Having a disability was associated with lower rates of living with a spouse only, alone, in a single-family home, or in a small or mid-sized apartment building and higher rates of all other living arrangements. Sub-group analyses revealed differences in the relationship between living arrangements and disability by gender and age group. This information provides a baseline from which to observe trends in living arrangements and disability for older adults in the United States of America. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-170616206 A |
| Classmark | BN: K4: K7:SJ: KE: 3DQ: 7T |
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