AGE & RESIDENCE DIFFERENCES IN HOUSEHOLD COMPOSITION

为长者提供长期照顾的重要性 非正式帮手导致社会老年学指导 在描述结构和功能方面做出了相当大的努力 围绕着老年人的支持网络，照亮了 这种交流的人际动态，并探索 正规保健和公共服务提供者与 非正式的网络。因为家庭内部的帮手大多是 往往是老年人应对的第一道防线增加了 残疾人，这个项目打算为更充分的，和 更详细地了解年龄和居住地的差异 老年人的家庭构成。公共用途 1980年人口普查的微数据样本(POMS)文件C 住房在很大程度上代表了丰富的信息来源 全国老年人及其家庭样本。小朋友们将会是 在此项目中使用，以创建更精细的两个 年龄和居住地比大多数以前的研究中使用的 因此，将允许更彻底地检查 这些因素与结构和组成的协变 65岁及以上个人的家庭。作为一名 结果是，将会出现对 潜在家庭内部的可得性和特点 不同年龄段的照顾者(包括年龄最大的 旧)和不同的生活环境。此外，通过使用其他 存在于POMS数据集中的变量，分析将检查 特定“处于风险”的家庭构成的变化 老年人人口(例如，低收入者或老年人 有功能障碍者)。最后，Pumps中的数据将是 用来探索与之生活在一起的人的个人特征 并评估他们作为照顾者的适宜性或潜力 敬老者。

The importance of the long term care provided to elders by informal helpers has caused social gerontology to direct considerable efforts at describing the structure and function of the support networks which surround elders, illuminating the interpersonal dynamics of such exchanges, and probing the collaboration of formal health and human service providers with the informal network. Because intra-household helpers are most often the "first line of defense" for elders coping with increased disabilities, this project intends to contribute to a fuller, and more detailed, understanding of age and residence differences in the household composition of the elderly. The Public Use Microdata Sample (PUMS) File C of the 1980 Census of Population and Housing represents a rich source of information on a large national sample of elders and their households. The PUMS will be used in this project to create more refined delineations of both age and residence than have been used in most previous research and, thus, will allow a more thorough examination of the covariation of these factors with the structure and composition of the households of individuals 65 years of age and over. As a consequence, a better understanding will emerge about the availability and characteristics of potential intra-household caregivers across elders of different ages (including the oldest- old) and different living environments. In addition, by using other variables which exist in the PUMS data set, analyses will examine variation in household composition for specific "at risk" populations of the elderly (e.g., those with low incomes or those with functional disabilities). Finally, the data in the PUMS will be used to explore the personal characteristics of those who live with elders and to estimate their suitability or potential as caregivers to the elderly.