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UNPARTNERED AND CHILDLESS OLDER ADULTS' RISK OF LONELINESS DURING COVID-19 BY COUNTRY CONTEXT

Older adults with non-traditional family structures (unpartnered and childless) may be at higher risk for loneliness. Yet, experiences of loneliness during COVID-19 can vary depending on a country’s context (e.g., culture, demography, COVID-19 mitigation policies, severity of the pandemic). We explo...

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Autores principales: Mair, Christine, Arpino, Bruno, Quashie, Nekehia, Antczak, Radoslaw
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9766774/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igac059.1501
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description Older adults with non-traditional family structures (unpartnered and childless) may be at higher risk for loneliness. Yet, experiences of loneliness during COVID-19 can vary depending on a country’s context (e.g., culture, demography, COVID-19 mitigation policies, severity of the pandemic). We explore associations between older Europeans’ family structure and loneliness to assess risks for those with non-traditional family structures (e.g., unpartnered vs partnered, childless vs parents) during the pandemic across a variety of country contexts. We analyze data from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) collected before (2019/2020) and twice during (2020, 2021) the pandemic to examine if unpartnered and childless older adults are at higher risk of loneliness, and compare results by multiple indicators of country context (fertility and partnership rates, stringency of COVID mitigation policies, population age composition, and COVID fatality rates). Results of this study can potentially inform current and future pandemic mitigation strategies.
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spelling pubmed-97667742022-12-20 UNPARTNERED AND CHILDLESS OLDER ADULTS' RISK OF LONELINESS DURING COVID-19 BY COUNTRY CONTEXT Mair, Christine Arpino, Bruno Quashie, Nekehia Antczak, Radoslaw Innov Aging Abstracts Older adults with non-traditional family structures (unpartnered and childless) may be at higher risk for loneliness. Yet, experiences of loneliness during COVID-19 can vary depending on a country’s context (e.g., culture, demography, COVID-19 mitigation policies, severity of the pandemic). We explore associations between older Europeans’ family structure and loneliness to assess risks for those with non-traditional family structures (e.g., unpartnered vs partnered, childless vs parents) during the pandemic across a variety of country contexts. We analyze data from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) collected before (2019/2020) and twice during (2020, 2021) the pandemic to examine if unpartnered and childless older adults are at higher risk of loneliness, and compare results by multiple indicators of country context (fertility and partnership rates, stringency of COVID mitigation policies, population age composition, and COVID fatality rates). Results of this study can potentially inform current and future pandemic mitigation strategies. Oxford University Press 2022-12-20 /pmc/articles/PMC9766774/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igac059.1501 Text en © The Author(s) 2022. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of The Gerontological Society of America. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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