Expectations for future care provision in a population-based cohort of baby-boomers.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

We describe sources expected to provide for future care needs among baby-boomers in their late sixties and examine how expectations vary according to earlier health and social experiences. We hypothesised that greater integration in social relationships across adulthood is associated with greater expectation of informal care, and that greater morbidity over a longer time period is associated with greater expectation of formal care.

Method

The MRC National Survey of Health and Development, a population-based birth cohort study set in mainland Britain, provided data on care expectations for 2135 participants aged 68-69. The outcome was who, besides the partner or spouse, is expected to provide for the future care needs, coded as adult children, other relatives, frien

SUBMITTER: Stafford M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6189454 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature