title: Women's financial planning for retirement: the impact of disruptive life events.
abstract: Providing care for an aged parent has immediate financial, emotional, psychological, and physical consequences for the primary caregiver. This pilot study of 138 middle aged and older females analyzes the long term financial consequences of providing care to aged relatives for female caregivers. The impact of this disruptive life event (e.g., caring for an aged relative) on retirement planning among middle aged and older adult women was analyzed using quantitative data collected from women residing in the Midwest region of the United States.
authors.affiliation: Bowling Green State University, 218 Health Center, Bowling Green, OH 43403, USA. norel@bgnet.bgsu.edu
authors.forename: Nancy A
authors.initials: NA
authors.lastname: Orel
authors.forename: Ruth A
authors.initials: RA
authors.lastname: Ford
authors.forename: Charlene
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Brock
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D017028:Caregivers / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D005260:Female; D005376:Financial Management; D005382:Financing, Personal; D006801:Humans; D008016:Life Change Events; D008875:Middle Aged; D009820:Ohio; D010865:Pilot Projects; D012179:Retirement / Q000191:economics*; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D018709:Statistics, Nonparametric; D014930:Women