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| Expectations of nursing home use in the health and retirement study: the role of gender, health, and family characteristics | | Author(s) | Karen Holden, Timothy McBride, Maria Perozek |
| Journal title | The Journals of Gerontology Series B: Psychological sciences and social sciences, vol 52B, no 5, September 1997 |
| Pages | pp S240-S251 |
| Keywords | Admission [nursing homes] ; Older men ; Older women ; Husbands ; Wives ; Health [elderly] ; Social characteristics [elderly] ; Attitude. |
| Annotation | Economic models of life cycle behaviour suggests that expectation of future events may affect savings, insurance and retirement planning. This study used data from the first wave of the Health and Retirement Study (1992) to explore how personal characteristics and health status influence expectations of nursing home use. Findings revealed that subjective expectations of nursing home use are relatively close to known probabilities of lifetime use. Nursing home expectations for men and women differed in ways that are consistent with their probable determinants of future use, in particular the underlying processes that shape those expectations take account of different factors. For instance, married men, who are likely to die before their spouses, had relatively low expected probabilities of nursing home use, whereas the availability of a spouse did not influence the expectations of women, who instead took into account the number of children and family history of nursing home use. |
| Accession Number | CPA-971125289 A |
| Classmark | LHB:QKH: BC: BD: SNA: SNW: CC: F: DP |
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