Tag: retirement age

Senior Healthcare Assistance in a Home

Abstract This study characterizes heterogeneous trajectories of health among older Americans and investigates how employment histories differentiate them.  Using the 1998-2010 waves of the Health and Retirement Study, we examine the impact of longest-held occupations on patterns of limitations in activities of daily living.  We use latent class growth analysis to identify distinct health trajectory…

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The brief’s key findings are: Over the past 25 years, the average retirement age for U.S. workers has been rising, a trend that should align with when people first claim Social Security. But the percentage of all initial claimants who are age 62 shows little change until recently. A better metric to capture claiming behavior…