Remarriage Probability After Widowhood: A Retrospective Method

Cleveland, William P.; Gianturco, Daniel T.

doi:10.1093/geronj/31.1.99

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“…Increasing life expectancy and a transformed age structure from the young to the old are changing every aspect of our lives (Wise, 1989). An aging population and longer individual life-spans raise important concerns about the impact of late-life events upon the well-being of the elderly (Cleveland & Gianturco, 1976;Wise, 1989). One of the most significant late-life events for elderly couples is the death of a spouse.…”

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Remarriage after Widowhood: A Marital History Study of Older Canadians

1995

Can. J. Aging

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RésuméÀ l'aide des données historiques tirées de l'étude de Statistique Canada sur la famille et les amis de 1990, cette recherche étudie divers facteurs influençant la probabilité de remariage chez les homines et les femmes dont le premier mariage s'est terminé par un veuvage. Les résultats suggèrent qu'il existe d'importantes différences entre les deux sexes lorsqu'il s'agit de se remarier. Le taux de remariage chez les veufs est beaucoup plus élevé que chez les veuves. De plus, le taux de remariage varie selon les indicateurs du cycle de vie et la situation socioéconomique. L'auteur discute des conséquences de ces résultats.

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Remarriage after Widowhood: A Marital History Study of Older Canadians

1995

Can. J. Aging

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“…Additionally, both married and unmarried men were more likely to spend a higher proportion of their future life years married as compared to married and unmarried women, respectively. This would mean that a married woman would be far more likely to become a widow, as opposed to a married man becoming a widower and, not surprisingly, investigators have found that older men are more likely to remarry as compared to older women ( Cleveland & Gianturco, 1976 ; Federal Interagency Forum on Aging-Related Statistics, 2016 ).…”

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Life expectancy and active life expectancy by marital status among older U.S. adults: Results from the U.S. Medicare Health Outcome Survey (HOS)

Jia

Lubetkin

2020

SSM - Population Health

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Background Previous investigations of the relationship between marital status and life expectancy and healthy life expectancy rely on the assumption that participants will remain in a given marital status until death. This study estimated total life expectancy (TLE) and active life expectancy (ALE) for respondents by their baseline marital status using a large longitudinal sample of the U.S. community-dwelling elderly population. Methods Data were from the Medicare Health Outcomes Survey Cohort 15 (2012 baseline, 2014 follow-up). We included respondents aged ≥65 years (n = 164,597). Multi-state models estimated TLE and ALE by marital status to allow participants’ marital status to change during the remaining lifetime. Results Between 65 and 85 years, married men and women had a longer TLE and ALE than unmarried men and women. For example, at 65 years, TLE for married men was 18.6 years, 2.2 years longer than unmarried men, and ALE for married men was 12.3 years, 2.4 years longer than unmarried men. Similarly, at 65 years, TLE for married women was 21.1 years, 1.5 years longer than unmarried women, and ALE for married women was 13.0 years, 2.0 years longer than unmarried women. Such marriage protection effects decreased with age. In subgroups of unmarried persons, never married persons had the shortest TLE and ALE among men, and never married, divorced, and widowed persons had a similar, and shorter, TLE and ALE among women. The difference in TLE between married and unmarried persons was smaller after adjusting for baseline activity limitation status. Conclusions This study provides additional evidence for marriage's protective effect, with the magnitude of protection being greater for younger as compared to older persons. Selection bias was a large contributor to longer life expectancy among married persons.

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“…particularly among women (Cleveland & Gianturco, 1976;Treas & Van Hilst, 1976). In one piece of research, Wilson and DeShane (1980) found that divorced individuals in a sample of per sons over age 65 had occupied that marital status for an average of 19.2 years.…”

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Causes and consequences of divorce in late life

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2000

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Remarriage Probability After Widowhood: A Retrospective Method

Cited by 35 publications

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Remarriage after Widowhood: A Marital History Study of Older Canadians

Remarriage after Widowhood: A Marital History Study of Older Canadians

Life expectancy and active life expectancy by marital status among older U.S. adults: Results from the U.S. Medicare Health Outcome Survey (HOS)

Causes and consequences of divorce in late life

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