Main description:

Aging, Health, and Longevity in the Mexican-Origin Population creates 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.

Feature:

deals directly with the concepts of diversity, social structure, and health inequality in the context of global population change

represents a key source of information for nongovernmental organizations advocating for Latino health, health care policy, immigration research

includes material that address important issues related to the contemporary political debate on immigration and health care reform in the United States and in Mexico

Back cover:

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:

·         Immigration, economics, and family: contextualizing disability.

·         Diabetes and employment productivity.

·         The “healthy immigrant effect” and cognitive aging.

·         Nursing home care: separate and unequal.

·         Challenges of aging in place.

·         Estimating the demand for long-term care.

Aging, Health, and Longevity in the Mexican Origin Population brings issues, answers, and a clear direction to those studying and working with this dynamic group, including policymakers, social workers, gerontologists, the academic and research communities, and health care professionals.

Contents:

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 González

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 Mejía 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 Pérez
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
Flávia Cristina Drumond Andrade

15. Latinos “Aging in Place”: Issues and Potential Solutions
William Vega 
Hector M. González

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 Díaz Venegas
Ronald J. Angel
20. Mexican-American Families and Dementia: An Exploration of “Work” in Response to   

      Dementia-Related Aggressive Behavior

Ester Carolina Apesoa-Varano

Judith C. Barker

Ladson Hinton

21. Caring for the Elderly: A Bi-national Task
Verónica Montes de Oca Zavala

Rogelio Sáenz

Ahtziri Molina Roldán
22.  Extending Medicare to Mexico: Impact on Mexican-Born Beneficiaries

David C. Warner
23. The Evolving Nexus of Policy, Longevity and Diversity: Agenda Setting for Latino Health and Aging

Fernando Torres-Gil

Diana Lam
24. Afterword: Human Security in Health: The Case of the Mexico–U.S. Border