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Does Aging at Home Make Older Adults Healthy: Evidence from Medicaid Home and Community-Based Services

Liu, Yinan; Zai, Xianhua - 2022

The Medicaid Home and Community-Based Services (HCBS) subsidizes long-term care to satisfy the increasing desire to age at home among older adults. The HCBS program may improve health outcomes of this population by allowing them to age-in- place, but less quality and quantity of home-based care...

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Early Life Exposure to the Great Chinese Famine (1959-1961) and the Health of Older Adults in China: A Meta-Analysis (2008-2023)

Shen, Chi; Chen, Xi - 2024

There is mounting evidence indicating that the aging process initiates during early life stages, with in utero the … interplay between early life circumstances, multiple health-related sectors, and healthy aging necessitates a comprehensive life …-course approach and strategic interventions to enhance public health in an aging society. …

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Do Private Household Transfers to the Elderly Respond to Public Pension Benefits? Evidence from Rural China

Nikolov, Plamen; Adelman, Alan - 2019

Aging populations in developing countries have spurred the introduction of public pension programs to preserve the …

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The Healthy Immigrant Paradox and Health Convergence

Constant, Amelie F. - 2017

The health status of people is a precious commodity and central to economic, socio-political, and environmental dimensions of any country. Yet it is often the missing statistic in all general statistics, demographics, and presentations about the portrait of immigrants and natives. In this paper...

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Does Schooling Improve Cognitive Abilities at Older Ages? Causal Evidence from Nonparametric Bounds

Amin, Vikesh; Behrman, Jere R.; Fletcher, Jason M.; … - 2022

We revisit the much-investigated relationship between schooling and health, focusing on cognitive abilities at older ages using the Harmonized Cognition Assessment Protocol in the Health & Retirement Study. To address endogeneity concerns, we employ a nonparametric partial identification...

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Children's Residential Proximity, Spousal Presence and Dementia Risk

Lin, Zhuoer; Yin, Xuecheng; Levy, Becca R.; Yuan, Yue; … - 2024

Cognitive impairment poses considerable challenges among older adults, with the protective role of family support becoming increasingly crucial. This study examines the role of children's residential proximity and spousal presence with dementia risk in cognitively impaired older adults. We...

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Life Expectancy, Income and Long-Term Care: The Preston Curve Reexamined

Ponthiere, Gregory; Thibault, Emmanuel - 2023

The Preston Curve - the increasing relation between income per capita and life expectancy - cannot be observed in countries where old-age dependency is widespread (that is, where long-term care (LTC) spending per capita is high). The absence of the Preston Curve in countries with high old-age...

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Cognitive Misperception and Chronic Disease Awareness: Evidence from Blood Biomarker Data

Lin, Zhuoer; Fu, Mingqi; Chen, Xi - 2023

Cognitive misperception contributed to poor decision-making; yet their impact on health-related decisions is less known. We examined how self-perceived memory was associated with chronic disease awareness among older Chinese adults. Data were obtained from the China Health and Retirement...

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Social interactions, loneliness and health: A new angle on an old debate

Casabianca, Elizabeth; Kovacic, Matija - 2024

This paper investigates the relationship between historically rooted norms that drive individuals to adhere to predeftned behavioural standards and attitudes towards loneliness. Focusing on a sub-population of second-generation immigrants, we identify an intergenerationally transmitted component...

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American Older Adults in the Time of COVID-19: Vulnerability Types, Aging Attitudes, and Emotional Responses

Fu, Mingqi; Guo, Jing; Chen, Xi; Han, Boxun; Ahmed, Farooq - 2022

relationship between vulnerability types, aging attitudes and emotional responses. International Positive and Negative Affect … Schedule Short-form (I-PANAS-SF) and Attitudes toward own aging (ATOT) were used to assess the emotional experiences and aging … explore the vulnerability types, and weighted linear regressions examined the relationship between vulnerability, aging …

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