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PubMed1997

Living arrangements, changes in living arrangements, and survival among community dwelling older adults.

OBJECTIVES: This study examines whether living arrangements and changes in living arrangements are associated with survival among older community-dwelling adults, and whether differences in health status account for observed differences in survival. METHODS: The sample consisted of 5085 persons aged 70 years or older who had participated in the Longitudinal Study of Aging in 1984 and 1986. Proportional hazards models were used to examine associations of survival time through 1990 with living arrangements in 1984 and with changes in living arrangements from 1984 to 1986. RESULTS: Women who lived with someone other than a spouse at baseline or who changed from living with a spouse to living with someone other than a spouse were at greater risk of dying than women in other living arrangements, independent of health status or functioning. Among men, survival time was not generally associated with baseline living arrangements. CONCLUSIONS: Older adults who live alone or who change from living with someone to living alone do not have an increased mortality risk. However, living with or changing to living with someone other than a spouse may be associated with increased mortality risk.

Activities of Daily Living↗
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The biopsychosocial adjustment of disabled elderly: a 1-year follow-up.

The objectives of this study were to identify and compare changes in the physical, social, and structural functions and in the family relationships of elderly patients upon hospitalization in a geriatric rehabilitation unit, and 1 year after discharge to the community (in the Negev region of Israel). The study was conducted on 88 elderly people with a mean age of 74 years. The Assessment of Dependency for Long-Term Care Benefits test was used twice as the study instrument for measuring the given objectives, once during the first week following admission to the unit and once 1 year later. At the end of the year there was improvement in most activities of daily living (ADL), a decrease in social roles, an increase in the number of illnesses, greater restrictions in diet, and an increase in use of social services. Changes were observed in the structure of the family social networks, the source of the primary caregiver, and living arrangements. Changes were not observed in the perceived family relationships. In both time periods, married elderly people evaluated family relations as better than did unmarried people. However, unmarried subjects demonstrated greater improvement in physical and social functions. Also, time had a significant effect on social function. Elderly people who were ill for less than 2 months prior to admission demonstrated greater social improvement than those whose illness lasted longer.

Activities of Daily Living↗
PubMed1998

Leaving home in Spain: a regional analysis.

"This paper compares regional patterns of leaving home in Spain during the 1970s and 1980s based on analysis of the 1991 Spanish Sociodemographic Survey. The purpose of this analysis is to demonstrate that while nationally Spain is representative of a southern European pattern of leaving home, (i.e. relatively late and closely associated with partnership formation), there is considerable regional variation in timing, incidence and initial destinations on leaving home. These differences are explored using hazard rates of leaving home by destination and birth cohort for 11 Spanish regions."

Cohort Studies↗
PubMed1994

[[Demographic foundations of elderly living arrangements: a simulation study of intergenerational coresidence]].

"In this paper we employ family status life tables to assess the effects of demographic processes on family composition and to reveal trends in elderly living arrangements [in Taiwan]. We found that further declining fertility and changing nuptiality are responsible for the prevalence of nuclear family composition. [The] increasing proportion of nuclear families indicates a decreasing probability [of] elderly parents living with their married children. In addition, according to the current nuptiality trends, the increasing proportion of women of all ages who remain [unmarried] will strengthen its effects on family composition in the near future." (SUMMARY IN ENG)

Adult↗
PubMed1991

A Chinese female postnuptial leaving home model--a procedure for analyzing main parameters alpha and beta in the setting up, testing and estimation of the model.

"The first section of this article...sets up a model for leaving home after marriage that is suited to China's situation. The second section performs a statistical test and verification of the formulated model for leaving home after marriage. The third section...proposes a method for analyzing the main parameters...in the model...." The model is set up along the lines of the Brass-Gompertz relational fertility model.

Asia↗
PubMed1993

Migration and the life course.

The importance of migration as a biographic event within the life course is asserted, using data for the former Federal Republic of Germany. "The migration process can be described by...various factors like the frequency of moves, the age when changing residence, the distance, the direction, [and] the motives.... Each change of residence has both a retrospective and prospective aspect. Additionally, changes in other biographic processes like marriage or births of children in the familial career or changes in the occupational career directly influence migration decisions. But there are also effects in the opposite direction: the migration process can influence the further development of other biographic processes. Thus, there exist a very complex structure of strong interdependent relationships between the several biographic careers." (SUMMARY IN FRE)

Behavior↗
PubMed1994

[Children become adults].

"The 1993 Netherlands Fertility and Family Survey interviewed about 3,700 men and 4,500 women in the age-group of 18 to 43 years. Amongst others, information was collected with respect to leaving the parental home.... Based on the collected information three groups of home leavers can be distinguished. The first group consists of children who leave their parents at a relatively young age.... Secondly a group [of] home leavers can be distinguished who leave at a relatively old age (and some of them so far never did).... The third group which can be distinguished consists of children who leave their parents at an age at which about most of the children leave." (SUMMARY IN ENG)

Age Factors↗
PubMed1994

[Changes in the demographic life course].

"The decision to live alone after leaving the parental home, to cohabit, to marry, or to become [a] mother for the first time, as well as the ages at which these decisions occur, characterize the individual demographic life-course. Based on the first results of the 1993 [Netherlands] Family and Fertility Survey it is shown that the kind of transitions made and the age at which these occur change.... The ages at which transitions in the demographic life-course are made, are compared for generations born after 1950. The results point to a continuous change. The only exception is the tendency to stay at the parents home, which changed direction towards a longer stay for those born since the mid 1960s." (SUMMARY IN ENG)

Age Factors↗
PubMed1992

Orientation and segregation of a micromanipulated multivalent: familiar principles, divergent outcomes.

We studied the orientation and segregation of a particular quadrivalent in living grasshopper spermatocytes. Quadrivalents were detached from the spindle by micromanipulation, then placed and bent as desired. The detached quadrivalents reattach and orient on the spindle. Their orientation is determined by the same principles that apply to ordinary chromosomes in mitosis and meiosis, but the outcome is different. Certain characteristics of the quadrivalent lead to a variety of orientations rather than the single one typical of ordinary chromosomes. Two kinetochores in the quadrivalent are linked to the others by unusually long, flexible chromosome arms. These kinetochores may face either the same pole or opposite poles and tend to orient initially to the pole toward which they face. Consequently, the initial orientation of the flexibly linked kinetochores is variable, and, moreover, they frequently reorient. In contrast, the other two kinetochores are as rigidly connected as those in a small bivalent and so display the typical back-to-back arrangement. Usually, this arrangement leads quickly to a stable orientation of the two kinetochores to opposite poles. Sometimes, however, the back-to-back arrangement changes to a side-by-side arrangement so that the orientation of both kinetochores to the same pole is favored. The combined effect of this diverse behavior is that the quadrivalent has four stable orientations, each leading to a different distribution of chromosomes in anaphase. The result is genetic chaos. Ironically, this chaos is produced by the same mechanisms that, in ordinary bivalents and mitotic chromosomes, produce a single stable orientation and genetically appropriate chromosome distribution.

Aneuploidy↗