Healthy Longevity in China: Demographic, Socioeconomic, and Psychological Dimensions (The Springer Series on Demographic Methods and Population Analysis)

✍ Scribed by Yi Zeng, Jr., Dudley L. Poston, Denese Ashbaugh Vlosky, Danan Gu

Year: 2008
Tongue: English
Leaves: 438
Edition: 1
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

Key research in the world’s largest aging population – in China – has fed into this important new work, which aims to answer questions critical to older people worldwide. These include: is the period of disability compressing or expanding with increasing life expectancy and what factors are associated with these trends in the recent decades? And is it possible to realize morbidity compression with a prolongation of the life span in the future? Essential reading for gerontologists.

✦ Table of Contents

1402067518......Page 1
Contents......Page 10
1. Introduction: Aging and Aged Dependency in China......Page 16
Part I: CLHLS and its Data Quality Assessment......Page 34
2. Introduction to the Chinese Longitudinal Healthy Longevity Survey (CLHLS)......Page 38
3. General Data Quality Assessment of the CLHLS......Page 53
4. Reliability of Age Reporting Among the Chinese Oldest-Old in the CLHLS Datasets......Page 74
5. Age Reporting in the CLHLS: A Re-assessment......Page 92
6. Assessment of Reliability of Mortality and Morbidity in the 1998–2002 CLHLSWaves......Page 112
Part II: The Effects of Demographic and Socioeconomic Factors......Page 129
7. The Effects of Sociodemographic Factors on the Hazard of Dying Among Chinese Oldest Old......Page 133
8. When I'm 104: The Determinants of Healthy Longevity Among the Oldest-Old in China......Page 144
9. Association of Education with the Longevity of the Chinese Elderly......Page 160
10. Analysis of Health and Longevity in the Oldest-Old Population—A Health Capital Approach......Page 167
11. The More Engagement, the Better? A Study of Mortality of the Oldest Old in China......Page 186
Part III: Living Arrangements and Elderly Care......Page 202
12. Living Arrangements and Psychological Disposition of the Oldest Old Population in China......Page 206
13. Health and Living Arrangement Transitions among China's Oldest-old......Page 223
14. Intergenerational Support and Self-rated Health of the Elderly in Rural China: An Investigation in Chaohu, Anhui Province......Page 243
15. The Effects of Adult Children's Caregiving on the Health Status of Their Elderly Parents: Protection or Selection?......Page 258
16. The Challenge to Healthy Longevity: Inequality in Health Care and Mortality in China......Page 276
Part IV: Subjective Wellbeing and Disability......Page 295
17. Successful Ageing of the Oldest-Old in China......Page 299
18. Impairments and Disability in the Chinese and American Oldest-Old Population......Page 310
19. Tooth Loss Among the Elderly in China......Page 320
20. Psychological Resources for Well-Being Among Octogenarians, Nonagenarians, and Centenarians: Differential Effects of Age and Selective Mortality......Page 333
21. An Exploration of the Subjective Well-Being of the Chinese Oldest-Old......Page 350
22. Social Support and Self-Reported Quality of Life: China's Oldest Old......Page 360
23. Mortality Predictability of Self-Rated Health Among the Chinese Oldest Old: A Time-Varying Covariate Analysis......Page 379
24. Gender Differences in the Effects of Self-rated Health Status on Mortality Among the Oldest Old in China......Page 399
25. Epilogue: Future Agenda......Page 421
C......Page 431
F......Page 433
L......Page 434
P......Page 435
S......Page 436
U......Page 437

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