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The Gerontologist, Vol 29, Issue 6 814-821, Copyright © 1989 by The Gerontological Society of America

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Differences in the household composition of elders by age, gender, and area of residence

RT Coward, SJ Cutler and FE Schmidt

Using a new procedure for coding the relationships of elders to other household members, we examined age, gender, and area-of-residence differences in household type and generational composition. The majority of elders live in some form of family household; most prevalent are two-person, married-couple-only households at ages 65-79, one-person households at ages 80-89, and two-generation households at ages 90+. Overall, elders are more likely to live in two- than in three- generation households.


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