Women on the front lines: meeting the challenge of an aging America
In 1900, one in 25 Americans was elderly. In 1990, it was one in eight, and by 2030, more than one in five Americans will be aged 65 or over. Women are 60 percent of the elderly population, and they are a much larger majority of the elderly poor, the elderly in nursing homes, and the elderly who liv...
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| Zusammenfassung: | In 1900, one in 25 Americans was elderly. In 1990, it was one in eight, and by 2030, more than one in five Americans will be aged 65 or over. Women are 60 percent of the elderly population, and they are a much larger majority of the elderly poor, the elderly in nursing homes, and the elderly who live alone. Because they usually live longer, women outnumber men by nearly three to one past the age of 85. In fact, the recent phenomenal growth of the oldest age group is primarily due to the unprecedented numbers of women who are surviving into very old age. But it is not only elderly women whose lives are affected by the aging of the U.S. population. Women of all ages are "on the front lines" of the aging trend because they provide most of the care to growing numbers of disabled elderly Americans. The book's expert authors explore a network of issues confronting women in our aging society, including middle-aged women's struggles to combine eldercare with paid work outside the home, women's prospects in an aging labor force, the causes of widespread poverty among elderly women of color and women who live alone, inequities in our pension system, and continued marginalization of aging women. The chapters lay out a number of steps needed to ensure that increases in longevity will mean more years of healthy, productive life and not merely a longer period of chronic ill health and economic dependency. Within the next two decades, the United States will have a much larger, more diverse older population. It will happen whether we plan for it or not. This book examines the issues that individual women, policy makers, and all of us as a society must face in order to respond to the changing needs of an aging America. |
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Acknowledgments xi
Preface Gail Sheehy xiii
1 The Front Lines Jessie Allen 1
2 Women in Our Aging Society: The Demographic
Outlook Cynthia M. Taeuber and Jessie Allen 11
3 Caring Too Much? American Women and the
Nation s Caregiving Crisis Susan E. Foster and
Jack A. Brizius 47
4 Years Gained and Opportunities Lost: Women and
Healthcare in an Aging America Jo Ann Lamphere
Thorpe and Robert J. Blendon 75
5 Preventive Medical Care: Targeting Elderly Women
in an Aging Society Marianne C. Fahs 105
6 Resiliency amidst Inequity: Older Women Workers
in an Aging United States Paula Rayman,
Kimberly Allshouse, and Jessie Allen 133
7 Race, Poverty, and Women s Aging
Julianne Malveaux 167
8 Expanding Social Roles for Older Women
Ruth Harriet Jacobs 191
9 Caring Work and Gender Equity in an Aging Society
Jessie Allen 221
10 Meeting the Challenge: Implications for Policy and
Practice Alan Pifer 241
viii Table of Contents
About the Editors 253
About the Contributors 255
About the Institutions 259
Index 261
List of Tables
2.1 U.S. Population by Age, Sex, Race, and
Hispanic Origin: 1990 2050 14
2.2 Marital Status of Persons in the United States
Aged 65 and Over, by Age and Sex: 1990
2040 29
3.1 Selected Characteristics of Nursing Aids.
Orderlies, and Attendants in the United
States: 1977 87 53
3.2 Sampling of Eldercare Assistance Programs
Offered by U.S. Companies 64
3.3 Leave Policies among States, June 1992 65
7.1 Elderly (Aged 65 and Over) Population and
Percentage in Poverty in the United States.
1990 170
7.2 Poverty Rates for Women in the United States.
by Age, Race, and Hispanic Origin, 1989 171
7.3 Poverty and Near Poverty for Older Women
(Aged 65 and Over) in the United States, by
Race and Hispanic Origin, 1990 172
7.4 Poverty among Women Aged 65 and Over in the
United States, by Selected Family/Living
Status, 1989 174
List of Figures
2.1 U.S. Population: 1990 13
2.2 U.S. Population: 2010 16
2.3 U.S. Population: 2030 16
2.4 U.S. Population: 2050 17
2.5 Median Incomes of Persons Aged 65 and Over
in the United States, by Sex and Race 22
TabJe of Contents ix
2.6 Percentage of Poor Elderly in the United States
in 1990, by Age, Sex, Race, and Hispanic
Origin 24
2.7 Percentage of Poor Elderly in the United States
in 1990, by Household Relationship, Race,
and Hispanic Origin 25
2.8 Percentage of Persons Aged 65 and Over in the
United States Who are Married, Spouse
Present, by Age, Sex, Race, and Hispanic
Origin: 1990 28
2.9 Social Support Ratios 33
5.1 Effects of High Risk and Low Risk User Ratios
on the Success of the Medicare Pap Smear
Benefit 119
5.2 Total Costs, Total Effects, and Cost Effectiveness
Ratios for Different Proportions of High
Risk and Low Risk Pap Smear Users 120
8.1 Expendability in the United States—Interaction
of Economy, Values, and Social Policy with
Population Categories of High or Low
Status 194
8.2 Cycle for Social Expendability in the United
States 196
8.3 Components of Role Change and Societal
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