Projections of white and black older adults without living kin in the United States, 2015 to 2060.

ABSTRACT: Close kin provide many important functions as adults age, affecting health, financial well-being, and happiness. Those without kin report higher rates of loneliness and experience elevated risks of chronic illness and nursing facility placement. Historical racial differences and recent shifts in core demographic rates suggest that white and black older adults in the United States may have unequal availability of close kin and that this gap in availability will widen in the coming decades. Whereas prior work explores the changing composition and size of the childless population or those without spouses, here we consider the kinless population of older adults with no living close family members and how this burden is changing for different race and sex groups. Using demographic microsimulati

SUBMITTER: Verdery AM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5651770 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature