Living alone in later life: A global perspective

D Reher, M Requena - Population and development review, 2018 - JSTOR
This article compares the determinants of living alone among older people during later life in
a wide variety of countries from across the globe, including very different family systems …

Longitudinal findings on aging-related cognitions, control beliefs, and health in later life

S Wurm, C Tesch-Römer… - The Journals of …, 2007 - academic.oup.com
We examined the influence of individual views of aging on health changes in later life. We
hypothesized that aging-related cognitions affect health changes irrespective of control …

Do men and women differ in their retirement planning? Testing a theoretical model of gendered pathways to retirement preparation

J Noone, F Alpass, C Stephens - Research on aging, 2010 - journals.sagepub.com
Previous literature has situated retirement and retirement planning within the male's domain
by positioning women as unconcerned and therefore ill prepared for retirement. However …

Living conditions and life satisfaction of older Europeans living alone: a gender and cross-country analysis

J Gaymu, S Springer - Ageing & Society, 2010 - cambridge.org
This study focuses on the influence of objective living conditions on the life satisfaction of
older Europeans living alone from a gender and cross-national perspective. The data were …

Living alone in the United States and Europe: The impact of public support on the independence of older adults

S Mudrazija, JL Angel, I Cipin… - Research on Aging, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
While we know that living alone is often associated with greater risk of financial hardship, we
have limited knowledge on the possible link between the availability of public support and …

Mayores que viven solos: una panorámica a partir de los censos de 1991 y 2001

P Zueras, PM Gamundi - Revista Española de Investigaciones …, 2013 - ingentaconnect.com
El artículo analiza la evolución de la vida en solitario de las personas de 65 a 84 años no
casadas y que no cohabitan en pareja entre 1991 y 2001 en siete países europeos …

The effect of health status and living arrangements on long term care models among older Chinese: A cross-sectional study

L Zhang, Y Zeng, Y Fang - PloS one, 2017 - journals.plos.org
Background Currently, there are many studies focusing on the influencing factors of the
elderly people's living arrangements or health status, but little is known about the …

Elderly women living alone in Spain: the importance of having children

D Reher, M Requena - European Journal of Ageing, 2017 - Springer
Our goal in this paper is to analyse the extent to which completed fertility, and in particular
childlessness, is a valid predictor of living alone at advanced ages, an increasingly …

Cultural specificity of socioemotional selectivity: Age differences in social network composition among Germans and Hong Kong Chinese

HH Fung, FS Stoeber, DY Yeung… - The Journals of …, 2008 - academic.oup.com
We examined age differences in social network composition among 330 Germans and 330
Hong Kong Chinese, aged 20 to 91 years. We measured social network composition with …

The educational gradient of living alone

G Sandström, L Karlsson - Demographic Research, 2019 - JSTOR
BACKGROUND In recent decades, the proportion of individuals in Western countries living
in a one-person household has increased. Previous research has mainly focused on the …