Disability Rises Gradually for a Cohort of Older Americans
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Disability and home care dynamics among older unmarried Americans.
OBJECTIVES We describe how paid and unpaid home care hours received by older unmarried Americans change in response to disability dynamics. We test whether responses to disability declines and improvements are symmetric; that is, we test whether reductions in care hours that are due to disability improvements are of similar magnitude to increases in care hours that are due to disability decline...
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عنوان ژورنال: The Journals of Gerontology Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences
سال: 2016
ISSN: 1079-5014,1758-5368
DOI: 10.1093/geronb/gbw002