Aging population

Question 1

What percentage of the elderly population lives in households with their partner?

Answer 1

has increased from 52.6% in 2001 to 56.8% in 2011

Question 2

How many of the elderly are essentially carers for their spouses?

Answer 2

Almost 1.3 million people aged 65 or older are carers

Question 3

Why is it much more likely for the woman to be the carer?

Answer 3

women are more likely to outlive men and therefore they tend to become the primary carer for their partner.

Question 4

What percentage of one-person households are composed of the elderly?

Answer 4

14 % of all households and 47%of one person housholds are elderly one person housholds

Question 5

How many widows are there in the UK compared to widowers?

Answer 5

in 2013 there were 1.7 million widowed women (3x the ammount of the number of widdowers

Question 6

Why does Chambers believe that this family support for elderly single-person households might not be available to elderly people in the future? Give three reasons.

Answer 6

• High leveles of geografical mobility. Adult children may live further away than they would have done 50 years ago. Weaker extended family ties.
• Familiys are getting smaller, this reduces the options of of family support.
• Same sex couples are less likely to to have children than hetrosexual couples and will have