TY - JOUR
T1 - A New Look at the Living Arrangements of Older Americans Using Multistate Life Tables
AU - Raymo, James M.
AU - Pike, Isabel
AU - Liang, Jersey
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported by a grant from the National Institute on Aging (R01 AG049716) and was conducted at the Center for Demography of Health and Aging and the Center for Demography and Ecology at the University of Wisconsin–Madison (P30 AG17266 and P2C HD047873, respectively).
Publisher Copyright:
© 2019 The Author(s).
PY - 2019/9/15
Y1 - 2019/9/15
N2 - Objectives: We extend existing research on the living arrangements of older Americans by focusing on geographic proximity to children, examining transitions in living arrangements across older ages, and describing differences by both race/ethnicity and educational attainment. Method: We use data from the Health and Retirement Study (HRS) over a period of 10 years (2000-2010) to construct multistate life tables. These analyses allow us to describe the lives of older Americans between ages 65 and 90 in terms of the number of expected years of life in different living arrangements, reflecting both mortality and living arrangement transitions. Results: Americans spend a substantial proportion of later life living near, but not with, adult children. There is a good deal of change in living arrangements at older ages and living arrangement-specific life expectancy differs markedly by race/ethnicity and educational attainment. However, overall life expectancy is not strongly related to living arrangements at age 65. Discussion: Multistate life tables, constructed separately by sex, race/ethnicity, and educational attainment, provide a comprehensive description of sociodemographic differences in living arrangements across older ages in the United States. We discuss the potential implications of these differences for access to support and the exacerbation or mitigation of inequalities at older ages.
AB - Objectives: We extend existing research on the living arrangements of older Americans by focusing on geographic proximity to children, examining transitions in living arrangements across older ages, and describing differences by both race/ethnicity and educational attainment. Method: We use data from the Health and Retirement Study (HRS) over a period of 10 years (2000-2010) to construct multistate life tables. These analyses allow us to describe the lives of older Americans between ages 65 and 90 in terms of the number of expected years of life in different living arrangements, reflecting both mortality and living arrangement transitions. Results: Americans spend a substantial proportion of later life living near, but not with, adult children. There is a good deal of change in living arrangements at older ages and living arrangement-specific life expectancy differs markedly by race/ethnicity and educational attainment. However, overall life expectancy is not strongly related to living arrangements at age 65. Discussion: Multistate life tables, constructed separately by sex, race/ethnicity, and educational attainment, provide a comprehensive description of sociodemographic differences in living arrangements across older ages in the United States. We discuss the potential implications of these differences for access to support and the exacerbation or mitigation of inequalities at older ages.
KW - Demography
KW - Education
KW - Living arrangements
KW - Minority aging (race/ethnicity)
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U2 - 10.1093/geronb/gby099
DO - 10.1093/geronb/gby099
M3 - Article
C2 - 30329101
AN - SCOPUS:85072509033
SN - 1079-5014
VL - 74
SP - e84-e96
JO - Journals of Gerontology - Series B Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences
JF - Journals of Gerontology - Series B Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences
IS - 7
ER -