HEALTH COACH - More older couples are 'Shacking Up'

HEALTH COACH - 
 More older couples are 'Shacking Up'  

 "We love and want to be together, and we are committed to stay together until death causes us," said Ms. Kanter. 
 
 But although they have been a couple since 2002 and have been sharing a house since 2004, they are not married. Among the elderly, they have a lot of businesses. 
 
 The number of people over the age of 50 who live with an unmarried partner jumped 75% from 2007 to 2016, said the Pew Research Center last month - 39; age. 
 
 "This was a striking conclusion," said Renee Stepler, a Pew research analyst. "We often think that cohabitants are young." 
 
 Most are still. But the number of cohabitants over the age of 50 rose from 4.3 million over the decade, according to Stepler, and the number of over 65 years doubled to about 900,000. 
 
 Demographers are careful. At the annual meeting of the Population Association of America in Chicago last month, featuring a "re-emergence" session later, Panelist Jonathan Vespa of the Census Bureau presented A presentation entitled "A Gray Revolution in Life Settings". 
 
 The trend reflects in part the absolute size of the baby boom cohort, as well as its increasing divorce rate. 
 
 The gray divorce called has gently doubled among the over 50s since the 1990s. The divorce leaves two people available for recruitment, of course; By losing a wife, and these days tends to strike at older ages. 
 
 
 But the attitudes have also changed. "People who have divorced have a broader view of what relationships are," said Deborah Carr, a sociologist at Rutgers University who was chair of the Population Association panel. 
 
 "The whole idea of ​​marriage as the ideal begins to erase, and personal happiness becomes more important." 
 
 Of course, baby boomers practically invented a pre-marital cohabitation widespread during their 20s and 30s - or felt they thought they did. 
 
 "It was calling it collapsing and it was not approved," said Kelly Raley, a sociologist at the University of Texas, Austin, and Former editor of the Journal of Marriage and Family. Families and religious groups have often condemned common life outside marriage. 
 
 But Americans accept much more now, she said, and people who are 60 years old "are very different from the people who were 60 years ago." 
 
 Karen Kanter, for example, had divorced twice after Long Marriages - 38 years in total - when she met with Mr. Tobin on Match.com. "Getting divorced gives you so much to unravel," she said. 
 
 "Our life is good together, so why bother it? I do not see the importance of this paper." 

 Mr. Tobin, also divorced after a long marriage, would not want to marry his partner - he actually offered to knee once, although he knew that Mrs. Kanter would say no but he is also fine With cohabitation. 
 
 "The relationship is more loose," he said. "We do not ask ourselves the time of the other. She has her life, I have my life and we have our life together." 
 
 For the elderly, the pros and cons can accumulate differently at earlier ages, while such relationships tend to be more unstable. Demographers see the younger cohabitation as a prelude to marriage or simply in the short term. 
 
 Later, cohabitation - like remarriage - brings camaraderie and wider social backgrounds, not to mention sexual intimacy, to ages where people might otherwise face isolation. On the financial front, the pooling of resources within the same household often improves the economic stability of seniors, especially for women who are at increased risk of poverty. 
 
 It also offers some economic protection. The elderly have more debts than previous generations, said Dr. Carr, including mortgages and student loans for children. "You become responsible for the debt of your legal spouse, but not for the debt of your partner in cohabitation," she said. 
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