Social Disadvantage and Instability in Older Adults' Ties to Their Adult Children.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

We examine whether racial and socioeconomic factors influence older adults' likelihood of experiencing instability in their social network ties with their adult children.

Background

Recent work shows that socially disadvantaged older adults' social networks are more unstable and exhibit higher rates of turnover, perhaps due to greater exposure to broader social-environmental instability. We consider whether this network instability applies to older adults' ties with their adult children, which are often the closest and most reliable social ties in later life.

Methods

We use two waves of data from the National Social Life, Health, and Aging Project (N=1,456), a nationally representative, longitudinal study of older Americans. Through a series of multivariate

SUBMITTER: Goldman AW 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6276798 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature