A Brief Report on Living Arrangements Following Gray Divorce.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

We offer new insights on how older adults in the United States navigate the aftermath of gray divorce (i.e., divorce that occurs among adults aged 50+) by describing their living arrangements upon divorce and tracking the stability of these configurations over time. Living arrangements are important to decipher because they are linked to health, well-being, and longevity.

Methods

Using data from the 1998-2014 Health and Retirement Study, we uncovered patterns of U.S. older adult living arrangements upon divorce (N = 1,057), distinguishing among those who lived alone, lived with others, and lived with a new partner. Multinomial logistic regression models were estimated to assess how individual characteristics (demographics, marital biography, economic resources, he

SUBMITTER: Brown SL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10394990 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature