The ageing population
- Created by: Rachel Hedger
- Created on: 13-10-13 16:49
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- Ageing Population
- There are increasing numbers of aged 65 and over and decreasing numbers of children under 16
- Elderly one person households
- Increase in one-person households over state pension age
- In 2005, 14% of all households were this type
- Women aged 65 and over were more likely to live alone due to higher life expectancy
- In 2005, 59% of women aged 75 and over were living alone
- Kinship diversity
- Evidence that working-class families still see great virtue in maintaining extended families
- Villians - Janet Foster (1990)
- Philipson and Downs (1999) and O'Brien and Jones (1996)
- Ross et al - (2006)
- Beanpole Families
- Brannen (2003)
- Recent emergence of four generation families
- Families today are less likely to have horizontal ties, now more likely to experience vertical ties
- 20% of people in their 50s and 60s currently care for an elderly person
- 10% care for both and elderly person and a grandchild
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