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Living arrangements and women's health
Social Science and Medicine, 1988The recent changes in the traditional patterns of living arrangements in the U.S.A. raise interest in their consequences for the well being of the individuals involved. In this paper the physical health of women in different living arrangements was studied.
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Loneliness and Living Arrangements
Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, 2007Adults with ID/DD live in increasingly small community settings, where the risk of loneliness may be greater. We examined self-reported loneliness among 1,002 individuals with ID/DD from 5 states in relation to community residence size, personal characteristics, social contact, and social climate. One third reported being lonely sometimes and one sixth
Roger J, Stancliffe +5 more
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Journal of Intellectual Disability Research, 2010
AbstractBackground The rights to choose where and with whom to live are widely endorsed but commonly denied to adults with intellectual disabilities (ID). The current study provides a contemporary benchmark on the degree of choice exercised by adult service users in the USA.Method Data came from the National Core Indicators programme.
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AbstractBackground The rights to choose where and with whom to live are widely endorsed but commonly denied to adults with intellectual disabilities (ID). The current study provides a contemporary benchmark on the degree of choice exercised by adult service users in the USA.Method Data came from the National Core Indicators programme.
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Living Arrangements After Divorce
Journal of Divorce & Remarriage, 1998"The purpose of this paper is to examine the characteristics of all [U.S.] couple households in which one or both partners were previously married. In this examination, we will consider not only households maintained by married couples...; we will also consider households formed by cohabiting couples.
H, Wineberg, J, Mccarthy
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Incarceration and Living Arrangements
Journal of Family Issues, 2009The authors use data from the 1992 National Health and Social Life Survey to examine the association between incarceration and living arrangements, net of a range of sociodemographic and early life characteristics. Relative to living with a spouse and child(ren), there is evidence that a history of incarceration is strongly associated with several ...
Andrew S. London, Wendy M. Parker
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Measuring Postdivorce Living Arrangements
Journal of Family Issues, 2012In this article, we present a new method for measuring residential arrangements of children following parental divorce. We discuss the limitations of conventional methods for measuring postdivorce residential situations of children, but our principal objective is to present a promising alternative, the residential calendar.
An Katrien Sodermans +3 more
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BMI categories across different living arrangements
International Journal of Obesity, 2023Research on the prevalence of body mass index (BMI) categories across different living arrangements remains limited. We aimed to quantify the prevalence of BMI categories among those living alone (LA) and those not living alone (NLA).In this population-based cross-sectional study, we used individual-level data from the 2011-2021 Behavioral Risk Factor ...
Mengmeng Yan, Yingying Liu
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2020
This chapter outlines some of the key issues and research evidence regarding residential living options for older individuals who have intellectual or developmental disabilities (IDD). The United Nation’s Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities defends the right of individuals with disabilities to choose where and with whom they live, on ...
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This chapter outlines some of the key issues and research evidence regarding residential living options for older individuals who have intellectual or developmental disabilities (IDD). The United Nation’s Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities defends the right of individuals with disabilities to choose where and with whom they live, on ...
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