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The Health of Aging Hispanics

The Mexican-Origin Population

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Editors:
  1. Jacqueline L. Angel

    1. LBJ School of Public Affairs and Department of Sociology, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, USA

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  2. Keith E. Whitfield

    1. Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, Duke University, Durham, USA

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  • Addressing the demographic trends affecting Latinos in the United States, Mexico and Latin America – particularly the aging of the Hispanic population and its resultant health and long-term needs
  • Focussing on the growing Hispanic population in the United States, this book indirectly addresses social issues such as culture, poverty, immigration, education, employment, and civil rights
  • An examination of the effect of migration on the health of the elderly – contrasting those who migrated and those who did not

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Table of contents (20 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XIV
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  2. Setting the Stage: Hispanic Health and Aging in the Americas

    1. Setting the Stage: Hispanic Health and Aging in the Americas

      • Jacqueline L. Angel, Keith E. Whitfield
      Pages 1-14

  3. Exploring the Health Consequences of Hispanic Mortality

    1. Front Matter

      Pages I-XIV
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    2. Health Status of Elderly Hispanics in the United States

      • Alberto Palloni
      Pages 17-25

    3. Census Disability Rates Among Older People by Race/Ethnicity and Type of Hispanic Origin

      • Kyriakos S. Markides, Karl Eschbach, Laura A. Ray, M. Kristen Peek
      Pages 26-39

    4. Disability and Active Life Expectancy of Older U.S.-and Foreign-Born Mexican Americans

      • Karl Eschbach, Soham Al-Snih, Kyriakos S. Markides, James S. Goodwin
      Pages 40-49

    5. Predictors of Decline in Cognitive Status, Incidence of Dementia/CIND and All-Cause Mortality in Older Latinos: The Role of Nativity and Cultural Orientation in the Sacramento Area Latino Study on Aging

      • Mary N. Haan, Vivian Colon Lopez, Kari M. Moore, Hector M Gonzalez, Kala Mehta, Ladson Hinton
      Pages 50-64

    6. Education and Mortality Risk Among Hispanic Adults in the United States

      • Sarah A. McKinnon, Robert A. Hummer
      Pages 65-84

    7. Does Longer Life Mean Better Health? Not for Native-Born Mexican Americans in the Health and Retirement Survey

      • Mark D. Hayward, David F. Warner, Eileen M. Crimmins
      Pages 85-95

  4. Contextualizing Support and Mexican-Origin Health in Old Age: Issues of Family, Migration, and Income

    1. Front Matter

      Pages I-XIV
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    2. Dynamics of Intergenerational Assistance in Middle- and Old-Age in Mexico

      • Rebeca Wong, Monica Higgins
      Pages 99-120

    3. Aging, Health and Migration: The Voices of the Elderly Poor in Mexico

      • V. Nelly Salgado de Snyder
      Pages 121-133

    4. Aging and Health Interrelations at the United States-Mexico Border

      • Roberto Ham-Chande
      Pages 134-140

    5. Colonias, Informal Homestead Subdivisions, and Self-Help Care for the Elderly Among Mexican Populations in the United States

      • Peter M. Ward
      Pages 141-162

  5. Access to Health Care Services Among Elderly Hispanics with Special Reference to Mexican Americans

    1. Front Matter

      Pages I-XIV
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    2. Disparities and Access Barriers to Health Care Among Mexican American Elders

      • Fernando Treviño, Alberto Coustasse
      Pages 165-180

    3. Lack of Health Insurance Coverage and Mortality Among Latino Elderly in the United States

      • Rogelio Saenz, Mercedes Rubio
      Pages 181-194

    4. Access Issues in the Care of Mexican-Origin Elders: A Clinical Perspective

      • David V. Espinod, Liliana Oakes
      Pages 195-201

    5. Cross Border Health Insurance and Aging Mexicans and Mexican Americans

      • David C. Warner
      Pages 202-210

    6. Cultural Myths and Other Fables About Promoting Health in Mexican Americans: Lessons Learned from Starr County Border Health Intervention Research

      • Sharon A. Brown
      Pages 211-221
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About this book

The emergence of the Hispanic population in the United States and the incre- ing pro?le of Latin America on the North and South American continents have raised the pro?le of “Latino” issues in the American consciousness. Much of this attention, however, has revolved around trends in culture, art, food and music or pathological concerns about poverty, crime, drugs, and immigration. At best, the scholarly and policy assessments of the implications of the impact of Latinos in the United States revolve around Mexican-Americans, Puerto Ricans, and Central Americans(aswellasthechildrenofanolderCubanpopulation)andtheirstruggles toachieveameasureofeducation,healthcare,employment,andcivilrights. What have not been adequately addressed are the demographic trends affecting Latinos in the United States, Mexico, and Latin America, particularly the aging of the H- panic population and its resultant health and long-term care needs. That Latinos are living longer and shifting from a youthful population to an increasingly older cohort is little known, except among the small cadre of Hispanic gerontologists. Ironically, this invisibility of aging Hispanics is juxtaposed to the almost p- icked response of the U. S. media and public toward the aging of the general U. S. population and the ?scal and political controversies over Social Security, Me- care, and health care costs. The policy debates of an aging U. S. population as a whole arise from substantial research and policy analysis—a level of attention not seen with regard to the aging of the Hispanic population.

Editors and Affiliations

  • LBJ School of Public Affairs and Department of Sociology, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, USA

    Jacqueline L. Angel

  • Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, Duke University, Durham, USA

    Keith E. Whitfield

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Health of Aging Hispanics

  • Book Subtitle: The Mexican-Origin Population

  • Editors: Jacqueline L. Angel, Keith E. Whitfield

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-47208-9

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag New York 2007

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-387-47206-5

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4419-2367-7

  • eBook ISBN: 978-0-387-47208-9

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIV, 290

  • Topics: Aging, Sociology, general, Public Health, Demography

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