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As the nation's largest Latino group, the Mexican-origin population will play a major role as America grows older: their situation is vital to understanding our aging, diverse society as national health care policy comes into a new era of analysis and revision. Aging, Health, and Longevity in the Mexican Origin Population identifies current and emerging health issues affecting this demographic, from health care disparities to changing family dynamics to the health implications of the United States' relationship with Mexico. Contributors test the Hispanic Paradox--that Latinos live longer than other Americans despite socioeconomic stresses--as it relates to various aspects of aging. Disability is discussed in social context, in terms of acculturation, family coping measures, access to care, and other key factors. And concluding chapters offer strategies for bringing the Mexican-American elder experience into the ongoing debate over health care. Throughout, coverage balances the heterogeneity of the community with its status as emblematic of minority aging and as a microcosm of aging in general. Included among the topics: ·
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Written from a bi-national perspective, this volume
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Aging, Health, and Longevityin the Mexican-Origin Populationcreates a foundation for an interdisciplinary discussion of the trajectory of disability and long-term care for older people of Mexican-origin from a bi-national perspective. Although the literature on Latino elders in the United States is growing, few of these studies or publications offer the breadth and depth contained in this book.
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Aging, health and longevity in the Mexican-origin Population
Preface and Acknowledgement
Jacqueline L. Angel
About the Authors
Forewords
Eduardo Sanchez
Kenneth Shine
1. Introduction
Jacqueline L. Angel
Fernando Torres-Gil
Kyriakos Markides
Section 1- Latino Aging: Risks of Disability and Chronic Illness
2. Overview
Hector Gonz lez
3. Does the "Healthy Immigrant Effect" Extend to Cognitive Aging?
Terrence D. Hill
Jacqueline L. Angel
Kelly S. Balistreri
4. Lifetime Socioeconomic Position and Functional Decline in Older Mexican Americans:
Results from the Sacramento Area Latino Study on Aging
Adina Zeki Al-Hazzouri
Michelle Odden
Elizabeth R Mayeda
Allison Aiello
John M. NeuhausMary N. Haan
5. Cultural Differences in the Effects of Disability on Mental Health in Mexican Couples
from the MHAS and MA Couples from the H-EPESE
M. Kristen Peek
Noe A. Perez
Jim S. Stimpson
6. BMI and transitions to disability among older adults in Mexico and the United States
Kerstin Gerst
Alejandra Michaels-Obregon
Rebeca Wong
Section 2. Contextualizing Disability: Issues of Immigration, Economics, and Family
7. Overview
Peter Ward
8. A Tale of Three Paradoxes: The Weak Socioeconomic Gradients in Health among Latino
Immigrants and their Relation to the Latino Health Paradox and Negative Acculturation
Fernando Riosmena
Jeff Dennis
9. On the Need for Prospective Studies on Aging and Health of the Hispanic Population in
the United States
Roberto Ham-ChandeSilvia Mej a Arango
10. Sociocultural Status and Burden of Disability in Aging Mexican AmericansHelen P. Hazuda
Sara E. Espinoza
11. Contextualizing the Burden of Chronic Disease: Diabetes, Mortality and Disability in
Older Mexicans
Jennifer Salinas
Bassent E. Abdelbary
Elizabeth A. Rocha
Sohan Al Snih
12. Access to Vaccines for Latin American and Caribbean Older Adults with Disability
Carlos A. Reyes-Ortiz
Diana M. Davalos
Maria F. Montoya
Daniel Escobar
13. Diabetes and Employment Productivity: The Effect of Duration and Management
among Mexican Americans
H. Shelton Brown, III
Adriana P rez
Lisa M. Yarnell
Craig Hanis
Susan P. Fisher-Hoch
Joseph McCormick
Section 3. Caregiving and Long-term Care of Older Latinos: Formal and Informal Care
Arrangements
14. Overview
Fl via Cristina Drumond Andrade
15. Latinos "Aging in Place" Issues and Potential Solutions
William Vega
Hector M. Gonz lez
16. Separate and Unequal Access and Quality of Care in Nursing Homes: Transformation of the Long Term Care Industry and Implications of the Research Program for Aging Latinos
Mary L. Fennell
Melissa Clark
Zhanlian Feng
Vince Mor
David B. Smith
Denise Tyler
17. Latino and Non-Latino Elderly in Los Angeles County: A Pilot Study of Demographic
Trends for Disability and Long-Term Care
David E. Hayes-Bautista
Charlene Chang
Werner Schink
18. Long-Term Care Policy and Older Latinos
Steven P. Wallace
19. Estimating the Demand for Long-term Care among Aging in Mexican-Americans:
Cultural Preferences versus Economic Realities
Angelica P. Herrera
Jacqueline L. Angel
Carlos D az Venegas
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Aging, health and longevity in the Mexican-origin Population Preface and Acknowledgement Jacqueline L. AngelAbout the Authors