| Description |
1 online resource (xxvii, 345 pages) : color illustrations |
| Series |
Social disparities in health and health care ; 2 |
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Social disparities in health and health care ; 2.
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| Contents |
Part 1. Latino Aging: Risks of Disability and Chronic Illness -- Overview -- Does the "Healthy Immigrant Effect" Extend to Cognitive Aging? -- Lifetime Socioeconomic Position and Functional Decline in Older Mexican Americans: Results from the Sacramento Area Latino Study on Aging -- Culture and Couples: Does Partner Disability Differentially Influence Mental Health Across Mexico and the US? -- BMI and Transitions to Disability Among Older Adults in Mexico and the United States -- Introduction: Aging, Health, and Longevity in the Mexican-Origin Population -- Part 2. Contextualizing Disability: Issues of Immigration, Economics, and Family -- Overview -- A Tale of Three Paradoxes: The Weak Socioeconomic Gradients in Health Among Hispanic Immigrants and Their Relation to the Hispanic Health Paradox and Negative Acculturation -- On the Need for Prospective Studies on Aging and Health of the Hispanic Population in the United States -- Sociocultural Status and Burden of Disability in Aging Mexican Americans -- Contextualizing the Burden of Chronic Disease: Diabetes, Mortality and Disability in Older Mexicans -- Access to Vaccines for Latin American and Caribbean Older Adults with Disability -- Diabetes and Employment Productivity: The Effect of Duration and Management Among Mexican Americans* -- Part 3. Caregiving and Long-term Care of Older Latinos: Formal and Informal Care Arrangements -- Overview -- Latinos "Aging in Place": Issues and Potential Solutions -- 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 Hispanics -- Latino and Non-Latino Elderly in Los Angeles County: A Pilot Study of Demographic Trends for Disability and Long-Term Care -- Long-Term Care Policy and Older Latinos -- Estimating the Demand for Long-Term Care Among Aging Mexican Americans: Cultural Preferences Versus Economic Realities -- Mexican-American Families and Dementia: An Exploration of "Work" in Response to Dementia-Related Aggressive Behavior -- Caring for the Elderly: A Binational Task -- Transnational Health Care Support -- Extending Medicare to Mexico: Impact on Mexican-Born Beneficiaries -- The Evolving Nexus of Policy, Longevity and Diversity: Agenda Setting for Latino Health and Aging -- Afterword: Human Security in Health: The Case of the Mexico-US Border |
| Summary |
Annotation Written from a bi-national perspective, this volume creates a foundation for an interdisciplinary discussion of the trajectory of disability and long-term care for older people of Mexican-origin in the United States |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed January 5, 2018) |
| Subject |
Older Hispanic Americans -- Medical care
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Aging -- United States
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Aging.
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Longevity.
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Social sciences.
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Regional planning.
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Health Status
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Mexican Americans -- ethnology
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Aging
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Health Services for the Aged
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Health Status Disparities
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Longevity
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Social Sciences
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Public Policy
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social sciences.
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regional planning.
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public policy.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Security.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Services & Welfare.
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Longevity
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Aging
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| SUBJECT |
Mexico https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D008800 |
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United States https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D014481 |
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United States
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Angel, Jacqueline Lowe.
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Torres-Gil, Fernando M.
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Markides, Kyriakos S.
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| ISBN |
9781461418672 |
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1461418674 |
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