This study examines the relationship between education and mortality, its underlying mechanisms, and its gender and age variations among older adults in China, using data from the 2002 to 2011 waves of the Chinese Longitudinal Healthy Longevity Survey. There is an inverse relationship between...

The relationship between the living arrangements of older people and the demand for and type of housing, the quantity and types of social services, informal support and care, life satisfaction, subjective well-being, and place of death is well-documented. There is a great gender difference. Some...

A growing number of studies in western nations have found that an important component in improving the quality of end of life is to meet the care needs of individuals approaching death. Information on the cost of these care needs would be useful in determining how to reduce the burden on family...