Zeng / Yi / Poston Healthy Longevity in China

Demographic, Socioeconomic, and Psychological Dimensions
2008
ISBN: 978-1-4020-6752-5
Verlag: Springer Netherland
Format: PDF
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E-Book, Englisch, Band 20, 438 Seiten, eBook

Reihe: The Springer Series on Demographic Methods and Population Analysis

Key research in the world's largest aging population - in China - has fed into this important new work, which aims to answer questions critical to older people worldwide. These include: is the period of disability compressing or expanding with increasing life expectancy and what factors are associated with these trends in the recent decades? And is it possible to realize morbidity compression with a prolongation of the life span in the future? Essential reading for gerontologists.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Yi, Zeng

Gu, Danan

Zeng, Yi

Poston, Dudley L.

Ashbaugh Vlosky, Denese

Jr.,

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Aging and Aged Dependency in China.- Introduction: Aging and Aged Dependency in China.- CLHLS and its Data Quality Assessment.- to the Chinese Longitudinal Healthy Longevity Survey (CLHLS).- General Data Quality Assessment of the CLHLS.- Reliability of Age Reporting Among the Chinese Oldest-Old in the CLHLS Datasets.- Age Reporting in the CLHLS: A Re-assessment.- Assessment of Reliability of Mortality and Morbidity in the 1998–2002 CLHLS Waves.- The Effects of Demographic and Socioeconomic Factors.- The Effects of Sociodemographic Factors on the Hazard of Dying Among Chinese Oldest Old.- When I’m 104: The Determinants of Healthy Longevity Among the Oldest-Old in China.- Association of Education with the Longevity of the Chinese Elderly.- Analysis of Health and Longevity in the Oldest-Old Population—A Health Capital Approach.- The More Engagement, the Better? A Study of Mortality of the Oldest Old in China.- Living Arrangements and Elderly Care.- Living Arrangements and Psychological Disposition of the Oldest Old Population in China.- Health and Living Arrangement Transitions among China’s Oldest-old.- Intergenerational Support and Self-rated Health of the Elderly in Rural China: An Investigation in Chaohu, Anhui Province.- The Effects of Adult Children’s Caregiving onthe Health Status of Their Elderly Parents: Protection or Selection?.- The Challenge to Healthy Longevity: Inequality in Health Care and Mortality in China.- Subjective Wellbeing and Disability.- Successful Ageing of the Oldest- Old in China.- Impairments and Disability in the Chinese and American Oldest-Old Population.- Tooth Loss Among the Elderly in China.- Psychological Resources for Well-Being Among Octogenarians, Nonagenarians, and Centenarians: Differential Effects of Age andSelective Mortality.- An Exploration of the Subjective Well-Being of the Chinese Oldest-Old.- Social Support and Self-Reported Quality of Life China’s Oldest Old.- Mortality Predictability of Self-Rated Health Among the Chinese Oldest Old: A Time-Varying Covariate Analysis.- Gender Differences in the Effects of Self-rated Health Status on Mortality Among the Oldest Old in China.- Epilogue: Future Agenda.