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Title: Diversity in Old Age: The Elderly in Changing Economic and Family Contexts

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Publication Year: 2013

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Abstract: Charles Kenny’s statement in Bloomberg Business Week that “the world is rapidly adding wrinkles” describes population aging in more visual terms than the terms used in most census reports (February 7, 2013). Declining fertility and increased life expectancy, language more recognizable in the demographic community, account for global growth in the old-age population. The U.S. population is part of the growth in wrinkles. Today more than 40 million Americans are age 65 and older (Howden and Meyer, 2011, table 1). This group makes up almost 13% of the U.S. population, more than a three-fold increase from 1900 (authors’ calculations, U.S. Census Bureau, 1996). By 2050, one in five people . . .

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Authors: Yahirun, Jenjira J.; Seltzer, Judith A.

Publisher: Brown University

Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Aging and Retirement, Family and Marriage

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