The Future Marital Status and Living Arrangements of the Elderly
- 1 June 1979
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in The Gerontologist
- Vol. 19 (3) , 301-309
- https://doi.org/10.1093/geront/19.3.301
Abstract
The “old-old” (80+), who need the most health and domiciliary care, will increase twice as fast by the year 2000 as the “young-old” (65 to 79). The young-old in 2000 will include nearly twice as large a proportion “ever-divorced” as the young-old of today. Half of the elderly women in 2000 may be maintaining a home apart from relatives. Very few elderly men (2%) and women (0.5%) report that they live with an unrelated adult of opposite sex; many of those may not be romantic dyads.Keywords
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