entitlement programs. Existing rules and escalating health care costs are expected to lead to fiscal pressures and to pose … retirees. It also examines how the retirement and health care of older citizens might be financed, and measures the potential …

entitlement programs. Existing rules and escalating health care costs are expected to lead to fiscal pressures and to pose … retirees. It also examines how the retirement and health care of older citizens might be financed, and measures the potential … Elderly. -- Economics of Aging ; Retirement and Health Care Programs ; Government Spending on Elderly ; Fiscal Pressures of …

waves of the Survey of Health, Aging, and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) dataset and construct a health deficit index. Results … from log-linear regressions suggest that, on average, elderly European men and women developed about 20 percent more health … suggesting that health deficits in old age are up to 40 percent higher for children suffering from hunger. The wedge of health …

research demonstrate that the strongest predictors of SWB later in life are satisfaction with one’s financial state, health …

This chapter examines three primary public health goals relating to elderly populations: promoting healthy aging … (including aging in place), reducing health inequities, and extending life spans. It then considers the ways in which programs or … policies to advance population-wide goals are challenged to meet ethical responsibilities to protect older adults from harm …

In this chapter, we first discuss the history of the Health and Retirement Study (HRS) network of surveys and how its … research. Such opportunities are ample and diverse, ranging from frailty and financial abuse to health care arrangements in the …

by the fetal origins hypothesis. We argue that while the conventional health capital model is irreconcilable with fetal … origins of late-in-life health outcomes, the more recent health deficit model can generate shock amplification consistent with … the hypothesis. In order to discuss human health over the life cycle from conception to death, we develop a theory of …