Caregiving to Older Adults With a Physical Limitation: Evidence From the Mexican Health and Aging Study.

Background And Objectives: Many older adults face physical limitations to performing activities of daily life (ADLs) and instrumental activities of daily life (IADLs) and seek help performing them. In Mexico, family caregivers, especially spouses and adult children, traditionally take care of older adults. However, a detailed characterization of the care received has not been thoroughly provided.

Recovery from physical limitations among older Mexican adults.

Objectives: This paper examines the key determinants of the likelihood of recovery from a physical disability among older adults.

Methods: Data come from the Mexican Health and Aging Study (MHAS), a national sample of adults born in 1951 or earlier, including a baseline survey in 2001 and follow-ups in 2003, 2012 and 2015. At baseline, we divided our sample of older adults aged 60+ by dimensions of physical limitations (ADLs, IADLs, mobility) and classified respondents as having physical limitations in zero, one, two or three dimensions.

Gender differences in health in Havana versus in Mexico City and in the US Hispanic population.

Health progress in the 1960s and 1970s placed Cuba at the vanguard of longevity in Latin America and the Caribbean. This success has often been attributed to equity of access to the health care system and its cost-effectiveness in the country. Cuba also has a small gender gap in life expectancy.

Fertility History and Cognitive Function in Late Life: The Case of Mexico.

Objectives: Mexico is aging rapidly, which makes identification of life-course factors influencing cognition a public health priority. We evaluate how the number of children one has relates to cognition in Mexico, a rapidly aging country that experienced fertility declines across recent cohorts of older people.

Method: We analyze older adults (age 50+, n = 11,380) from the 2015 Mexican Health and Aging Study.

Association Between Baseline Glycemic Markers (HbA1c) and 8-Year Trajectories of Functional Disability.

Background: This study assessed whether baseline (i) HbA1c (low [<5.7%], intermediate [5.7%-6.

The effect of educational attainment on cognition of older adults: results from the Mexican Health and Aging Study 2001 and 2012.

This paper seeks to document changes in the effect of educational attainment on cognitive function of older adults in Mexico, and measure gender differences using data from two time periods. The data come from the Mexican Health and Aging Study (MHAS), taking the cross-sections of adults aged 60 years or older interviewed in 2001 and 2012. We perform an OLS regression using standardized z-scores for five individual cognitive domains and for total cognition.

Cross-national health comparisons using the Rasch model: findings from the 2012 US Health and Retirement Study and the 2012 Mexican Health and Aging Study.

Purpose: Cross-national comparisons of patterns of population aging have emerged as comparable national micro-data have become available. This study creates a metric using Rasch analysis and determines the health of American and Mexican older adult populations.

Methods: Secondary data analysis using representative samples aged 50 and older from 2012 U.

Life expectancy with and without cognitive impairment by diabetes status among older Americans.

Diabetes affects mortality and cognitive functioning. It is not known how diabetes influences life expectancy (LE) with and without cognitive impairment. We seek to examine age at onset of cognitive impairment and life expectancy (LE) with and without cognitive impairment by diabetes status among middle- and older-aged Americans.

Family size and old-age wellbeing: effects of the fertility transition in Mexico.

The present study aims to determine how family size affects psycho-social, economic and health wellbeing in old age differently across two cohorts with declining fertility. The data are from the 2012 Mexican Health and Ageing Study (MHAS) including respondents aged 50+ (N = 13,102). Poisson (standard and zero-inflated) and logistic regressions are used to model determinants of wellbeing in old age: psycho-social (depressive symptoms), economic (consumer durables and insurance) and health (chronic conditions).

Differences in the Progression of Disability: A U.S.-Mexico Comparison.

Objectives: This article seeks to document the progression of disability in a developing country by implementing a model to examine how this process compares to a developed country.

Methods: Data come from the Mexican Health and Aging Study (MHAS), including a baseline survey in 2001 and a follow-up in 2003, and from the U.S.

Trajectories of limitations in activities of daily living among older adults in Mexico, 2001-2012.

Background: Trajectories of disability are an essential component to understand the burden of disability at the societal level. Longitudinal studies, compared to cross-national studies, enable a better analysis of the progression of physical limitations among the elderly. However, information on disability dynamics in developing countries is limited.

Racial and ethnic differences in cognitive function among older adults in the USA.

Objective: Examine differences in cognition between Hispanic, non-Hispanic black (NHB), and non-Hispanic white (NHW) older adults in the United States.

Data/methods: The final sample includes 18 982 participants aged 51 or older who received a modified version of the Telephone Interview for Cognitive Status during the 2010 Health and Retirement Study follow-up. Ordinary least squares will be used to examine differences in overall cognition according to race/ethnicity.

The progression of disability among older adults in Mexico.

Purpose: This paper seeks to document the progression of disability in a developing country and to examine gender differences in this process.

Methods: The data come from the Mexican Health and Aging Study (MHAS), a nationally representative sample of older adults. An ordinal logistic regression (n = 3283) is used to measure the progression of disability that considers: (1) no disability, (2) mobility problems, (3) mobility problems with IADLs limitations, (4) mobility problems with ADLs limitations, (5) combinations of the latter three and (6) death.

Transitions in activities of daily living in Mexico, 2001-2012.

Objective: This paper describes the 2001-2012 progression of limitations in daily activities in the Mexican elderly population aged 60 or older and identifies how sociodemographic and health factors affect these progressions.

Materials And Methods: Data come from the Mexican Health and Aging Study (MHAS), a national sample of adults born in 1951 or earlier, including a baseline survey in 2001 and follow-ups in 2003 and 2012.

Results: Difficulty in getting dressed is the activity that has the highest prevalence in all three waves for both genders.

Shorter stay, longer life: age at migration and mortality among the older Mexican-origin population.

Objective: In this article, we investigate the association between age at migration and mortality during a 13-year period in a sample of Mexican American immigrants 65 and older at baseline.

Method: We employ the Hispanic Established Populations for Epidemiologic Studies of the Elderly (H-PESE) to control for mortality-related health and social factors.

Results: Our analyses show that the immigrant generation does not represent a homogeneous mortality risk category.