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Residential Location and Proximity to Children Among Impaired Elderly Parents 1
Author(s) -
Lee Gary R.,
Dwyer Jeffrey W.,
Coward Raymond T.
Publication year - 1990
Publication title -
rural sociology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.083
H-Index - 65
eISSN - 1549-0831
pISSN - 0036-0112
DOI - 10.1111/j.1549-0831.1990.tb00698.x
Subject(s) - residence , nonfarm payrolls , rural area , gerontology , sample (material) , demography , psychology , geography , medicine , environmental health , sociology , agriculture , chemistry , archaeology , pathology , chromatography
The availability of adult children as potential caregivers is particularly critical to the rural elderly because of the dearth of health and human services in rural areas. This paper analyzes proximity to adult children among a large sample of older persons with some degree of functional impairment, employing four residence categories and two indicators of proximity: coresidence with a child, and residence within a half‐hour's travel time. Results show that older residents of large cities are most likely to live with children and that large‐city and farm residents are more likely than small‐city or rural nonfarm residents to live near children. Implications regarding the potential for family caregiving for the impaired elderly are discussed.