Open AccessInstitutionalization of Older Adults After the Death of a Spouse
Author(s) -
Eliihtilä,
Pekka Martikainen
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
american journal of public health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.284
H-Index - 264
eISSN - 1541-0048
pISSN - 0090-0036
DOI - 10.2105/ajph.2007.119271
Subject(s) - spouse , institutionalisation , gerontology , demography , hazard ratio , medicine , psychology , confidence interval , psychiatry , sociology , anthropology
We investigated the risk of entering long-term institutional care after the death of a spouse in relation to the duration of widowhood among older Finnish men and women. We also examined whether high levels of education or household income buffered the effects of bereavement on institutionalization.