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Aging, Health, and Longevity in the Mexican-Origin Population 2012th Edition
Author(s): Jacqueline L. Angel (Editor), Fernando Torres-Gil (Editor), Kyriakos Markides (Editor)
- Publisher: Springer
- Publication Date: 9 Feb. 2012
- Edition: 2012th
- Language: English
- Print length: 376 pages
- ISBN-10: 1461418666
- ISBN-13: 9781461418665
Book 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.
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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:
· 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.
