title: Dependent or Productive? A New Approach to Understanding the Social Positioning of Older South Africans Through Living Arrangements.
abstract: South Africa's population is aging. Most of the older Black South Africans continue to live in extended household structures with children, grandchildren, and other kin. They also constitute a source of income through a means-tested noncontributory state-funded pension available at age 60. Using census data from the Agincourt Health and Demographic Surveillance System in 2000, 2005, and 2010, we develop a typology of living arrangements that is reflective of the social positioning of elderly persons as dependent or productive household members and analyze changes in the distribution over time. Older persons, in general, live in large, complex, and multigenerational households. Multigenerational households with "productive" older persons are increasing in proportion over the period, although there are few differences by gender or pension eligibility at any time point.
authors: University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, USA University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA MRC/Wits Rural Public Health and Health Transitions Research Unit (Agincourt), Faculty of Health Sciences, School of Public Health, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa schatzej@health.missouri.edu.
authors: Enid
authors: E
authors: Schatz
authors: University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA MRC/Wits Rural Public Health and Health Transitions Research Unit (Agincourt), Faculty of Health Sciences, School of Public Health, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA.
authors: Sangeetha
authors: S
authors: Madhavan
authors: MRC/Wits Rural Public Health and Health Transitions Research Unit (Agincourt), Faculty of Health Sciences, School of Public Health, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa Umeå Centre for Global Health Research, Umeå University, Sweden Migration, Urbanisation and Health Working Group, INDEPTH Network, Ghana.
authors: Mark
authors: M
authors: Collinson
authors: MRC/Wits Rural Public Health and Health Transitions Research Unit (Agincourt), Faculty of Health Sciences, School of Public Health, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.
authors: F Xavier
authors: FX
authors: Gómez-Olivé
authors: Mississippi State University, Mississipi State, MS, USA.
authors: Margaret
authors: M
authors: Ralston
mesh_terms: D000375:Aging; D017028:Caregivers; D005190:Family; D005191:Family Characteristics; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010415:Pensions; D012424:Rural Population; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D013019:South Africa / Q000453:epidemiology
keywords: Africa; South Africa; aging; gender; living arrangements; social grants
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