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| Effects of potential changes in coresidence on matched older parent-adult child dyads | | Author(s) | Stan L Albrecht, Raymond T Coward, Adam Shapiro |
| Journal title | Journal of Aging Studies, vol 11, no 1, Spring 1997 |
| Pages | pp 81-96 |
| Keywords | Living with family ; Parents ; Widows ; Social characteristics [elderly] ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | One important consequence of the rise in the number and proportion of older people in US society may be an increased occurrence of living patterns where the older person shares a household with one or more of his or her adult children. The authors use data from the National Survey of Families and Households to examine perceived effects of a discontinuance of this pattern of shared residence. While most in both groups report that specific life dimensions would remain largely unchanged if they were not sharing a household, ageing parents anticipate more negative consequences from the hypothetical separation than do their adult children. The responses of older parents apparently reflect the greater dependence and vulnerability that result from a variety of economic and health-related problems. Perceptions of both groups are only modestly affected by several sociodemographic and structural characteristics, though age is a fairly consistent predictor of more negative perceptions among the older group. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-981015206 A |
| Classmark | KA:SJ: SR: SP: F: 7T |
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