The Historical Percentage of Elderly Men Living with Relatives Other Than Their Spouse Shows that the White Population Consistently has a Significantly Lower Rate and that Other Ethnicities are Inconsistent Over the Years Data Source: US Dept of HHS, CDC Trends in Health and Aging Time Period: 1984 – 2004 Sally Divita CMSC734 Spring 2007
As with Men, the Female White Population Lives with Other Relatives Significantly Less Than Other Ethnicities - Usually Half as Much Comparing This Data with the Previous Slide: Across Ethnic Backgrounds, a Higher Percentage of Women Live with Other Relatives Than Men - Sometimes as Much as 2 or 3 Times Higher Data Source: US Dept of HHS, CDC Trends in Health and Aging Time Period: 1984 – 2004 Sally Divita CMSC734 Spring 2007
The Trend of the Percentage of Elderly White Women Living with their Spouse versus Living Alone is Conversely Related : A Growing Percentage are Living with Their Spouses Data Source: US Dept of HHS, CDC Trends in Health and Aging Time Period: 1984 – 2004 Sally Divita CMSC734 Spring 2007