Families and Households of the Elderly Population

Prospects for those Approaching Old Age

Datos Bibliográficos

ID11201352
AutoresIan Timæus, Ian M Timaeus (0000-0001-8011-4806, University of London, autor de correspondencia)
Año1986
Volumen6
Número3
Páginas271-293
Fecha de publicación1986-09-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaAgeing and Society (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0144-686X • E-ISSN: 1469-1779
EditorialCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0144686x00005961
OpenAlexW2116455342
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas7
Referencias citadas5

Long-term demographic trends that determine the absolute and relative size of the elderly population also underlie changes in the proportions of older people with living spouses and children. Such changes have important implications for residential isolation, the provision of care and the overall quality of life of the old. Demographic trends influencing the family situations of older people in Britain are discussed and detailed projections presented for women reaching age 60 in the period 1971–96. Increases in the propensity to marry and bear children after about 1940, together with declining mortality, mean that the proportions of older women that are married and that have children are likely to increase until the second decade of the next century. It is often assumed that demographic ageing will result in an increase in the number of elderly women living alone. However, the increase in the proportion of them that are married offsets this trend

Geography · Older people · Population · Population ageing · Sociology · Demography · Global Health Care Issues · Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving · Medicine · Migration, Aging, and Tourism Studies · Gerontology