How U.S. Older Adults Provide Care for Their Aging Parents, Adult Children, and Friends
(2011) Most research on the gender gap in unpaid caregiving in the United States has focused on young families.
(2011) Most research on the gender gap in unpaid caregiving in the United States has focused on young families.
(2002) The past century witnessed a revolution in health care, yet millions of women still endure the risks of pregnancy and childbirth under conditions virtually unchanged over time. Maternal complications take a serious toll on women.
(2003) The United States adopts more children from abroad than any other country. The number of foreign children adopted by U.S. parents has increased sharply, and nearly doubled during the 1990s.
(2010) The United States has a lower life expectancy than many other wealthy countries—and the gap has been widening over the last two decades.
(2002) According to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), reproductive health care is among the crucial elements that give refugees the basic human welfare and dignity that is their right.1
(2014) Throughout human history, the world's population had grown slowly and by the beginning of the 20th century was only 1.6 billion people. Today, after only 110 years, the world's population has surpassed 7.1 billion people.
Project: Demography and Economics of Aging and Alzheimer’s Disease
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