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How U.S. Older Adults Provide Care for Their Aging Parents, Adult Children, and Friends

View webcast, “Gender and Intergenerational Transfer of Time Later in Life,” Suzanne Bianchi (Time: 45 min) Most research on the gender gap in unpaid caregiving in the United States has focused on young families. During the childrearing years, women provide the bulk of child care, although the time men spend caring for their children has…

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Defining ‘Good’ and ‘Poor’ Health Empirically: A Profile of Older Adults in the United States

View webcast (Time: 58 minutes) A large share of the older population in the United States is doing well, overall. Although most discussions of the health of this population tend to focus on the prevalence of obesity, smoking, or common diseases, each person has their own level of resistance or susceptibility to different health problems….

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Recession and Recovery: How Are Americans Affected?

View webcast (Time: 48 minutes) On July 12, 2010, the Population Association of America (PAA), in cooperation with Sens. Jeff Bingaman and Charles Schumer, and Reps. Vern Ehlers, Rush Holt, Carolyn Maloney, and Lucille Roybal-Allard, sponsored a presentation at the Rayburn House Office Building in Washington, D.C., on recession, recovery, and families in the United…

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Family Care for an Aging Population

View webcast of symposium (Time: 1 hour, 29 minutes) Today, Americans are more likely to marry and to divorce than in almost any other Western nation. Serial marriages, rising levels of cohabitation, delayed childbearing, and nonmarital parenthood have added complexity to American families. At the same time, increases in women’s attachment to the labor force…

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