Statewide Survey of Living Arrangements for Conditionally Released Insanity Acquittees

AbstractAn extensive body of research documents marital status differences in health among older adults. However, few studies have investigated the heterogeneity in depressive symptomatology among older married adults living in developing countries. Our study investigates the interplay of gender and marital power dynamics for mental health among older Mexican adults. Our sample includes older married couples in the 2015 Wave of the Mexican Health and Aging Study (N = 3,621 dyads). We use seemingly unrelated regression to model the association between self-reported distributions of decision-making power within marriages and depressive symptoms for husbands and wives. For approximately 41 per cent of couples, the husband and wife both reported an equal distribution of power in the marriage. Compared to those who reported an equal power distribution, husbands and wives who reported an imbalance of power (having more power or less power than their spouse) reported more depressive symptoms. Levels of depressive symptoms were higher in marriages characterised by power inequality. The relationship between equality in power and depressive symptoms is not explained by health-care needs or living arrangements. Marital quality is an important factor for understanding depressive symptoms among older Mexican adults.

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Effects of living arrangements on well‐being, perceived conflict, and intergroup attitudes for local and international students: Results from a field intervention

Journal of Social Issues ◽

10.1111/josi.12464 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Ya Hui Michelle See ◽

Walter Patrick Wade

Keyword(s):

International Students ◽

Living Arrangements ◽

Well Being ◽

Intergroup Attitudes

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Predictors of Caregiver Burden in Delirium: Patient and Caregiver Factors

Innovation in Aging ◽

10.1093/geroni/igaa057.818 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 4 (Supplement_1) ◽

pp. 254-255

Author(s):

Patricia Tabloski ◽

Franchesca Arias ◽

Nina Flanagan ◽

Tamara Fong ◽

Eva Schmitt ◽

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Keyword(s):

Caregiver Burden ◽

Living Arrangements ◽

Living Arrangement ◽

Patient Characteristics ◽

Confusion Assessment Method ◽

Assessment Method ◽

Functional Domain ◽

Medical Patients ◽

Patient Factors ◽

Caregiver Relationship

Abstract Delirium — an acute disorder of attention and cognition — is a common, life-threatening and costly syndrome occurring frequently in older hospitalized persons. The unexpected, rapid, and volatile nature of delirium can be difficult for family caregivers to experience and may contribute to subjective feelings of distress (i.e. “delirium burden”). The aim of this study was to examine whether pre-admission patient characteristics or patient-caregiver relationship and living arrangements were associated with caregiver burden as measured by the delirium burden scale for caregivers (DEL-B-C; score 0-40, higher score is more burden). Our sample consisted of 208 older adults and their caregivers from the Better Assessment of Illness (BASIL) study, an ongoing prospective, observational study of surgical and medical patients ≥70 years old; 22% of patients experienced delirium by the Confusion Assessment Method (CAM) and the average DEL-B-C score was 7.9, 95% CI(6.95-8.88). Results indicated that neither patient-caregiver relationship and living arrangement or patient factors including pre-admission pain, sleep disturbance, or new onset incontinence were significantly correlated with delirium-related caregiver burden. However, DEL-B-C scores were significantly higher in caregivers of patients with any ADL impairment (mean 8.5 vs. 5.2, p = .016) during hospitalization although none of the individual functional deficits alone were statistically significant. This finding suggests that the association of ADL impairment and DEL-B-C scores is not driven by a single functional domain. Future studies are needed to further understand how caregiver characteristics and patient factors occurring before and during hospitalization contribute to caregiver burden after the occurrence of delirium.

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Intergenerational Relationships, Social Support, and Psychological Well-Being Among Korean Older Adults

Innovation in Aging ◽

10.1093/geroni/igaa057.1608 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 4 (Supplement_1) ◽

pp. 498-498

Author(s):

Yooumi Lee ◽

Janet Wilmoth

Keyword(s):

Social Support ◽

Older Adults ◽

Depressive Symptoms ◽

Living Arrangements ◽

Linear Models ◽

Depression Scale ◽

Adult Child ◽

Intergenerational Relationships ◽

Well Being ◽

Psychological Well Being

Abstract This study investigates whether intergenerational relationships and social support improve the psychological well-being of Korean older adults. We examine whether intergenerational relationships and social support directly influence psychological well-being and the extent to which they mediate the distressing consequences of life events such as declining health and recent widowhood. Using longitudinal data from the 2006 to 2016 Korean Longitudinal Study of Aging, we explore depression trajectories among individuals who are 60 or older with at least one living adult child at baseline. Specifically, we converted data from 5,383 older adults into a person-period file with 24,726 observations over a ten-year period. Then we estimated linear growth curve models of depression trajectories separately for men and women using the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale (CES-D). Results from the hierarchical linear models indicate that declining health and recent widowhood are positively related to depressive symptoms. Satisfactory intergenerational relationships and social support in the form of personal interactions and proximate living arrangements with adult children decrease depressive symptoms of older parents, especially among women. We conclude that the psychological benefits of intergenerational relationships and social support are contingent upon the vulnerability of older adults and discuss the implications for public policy.

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Economic Poverty: Does the Break-Up of Families Matter?

Social Sciences ◽

10.3390/socsci10060224 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 10 (6) ◽

pp. 224

Author(s):

Maria Alessandra Antonelli ◽

Valeria De Bonis

Keyword(s):

Family Structure ◽

Living Arrangements ◽

Divorce Rate ◽

Marriage Rate ◽

Econometric Analysis ◽

Family Type ◽

Traditional Family ◽

Extended Families ◽

The Relationship ◽

Oecd Data

In this paper we investigate the relationship between family structure and poverty for European countries using Eurostat and OECD data. In particular, we focus on the change in living arrangements, with the traditional type of household—couple with children—being partially replaced by single and extended families. The results of our econometric analysis show that the decline in the traditional family type affects individual poverty: the marriage rate and the share of couples, both with and without children, are inversely related to poverty; the divorce rate, the shares of extended families and singles with children are, instead, positively related to poverty.

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