Longer Life and Healthy Aging - International Studies in Population 2006 edition

Marc Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index. Table of Contents: Preface. Introduction. Part I. Disability and Healthy Life Expectancy. Introduction to Part I, Jean Marie Robine. 1. Can We Live Longer, Healthier Lives? Carol Jagger. 2. Aging and Disability in Taiwan: Prevalence and Transitions from a Panel Study, Ming-Cheng Chang and Zachary Zimmer. 3. Disability Patterns for U. S. Elderly Nursing Home Residents over Two Decades: Findings from the 1973 to 1997 National Nursing Home Surveys, Yongyi Li, Elizabeth H. Corder and Larry S. Corder. 4. A Method for Correcting the Underestimation of Disabled Life Expectancy, with an Empirical Application to Oldest-Old in China, Zeng Yi, Gu Danan and Kenneth C. Land. 5. Effects of Diabetes on Healthy Life Expectancy: Shorter Lives with More Disability for Both Women and Men, James N. Laditka and Sarah B. Laditka. 6. Increasing Longevity: Causes, Consequences and Prospects. Cardiovascular Disease Trends, Russell V. Luepker. Part II. Individual Healthy Aging. Introduction to Part II, Eileen Crimmins. 7. Age Differences in Allostatic Load: An Index of Frailty, Eileen M. Crimmins. 8. Aging without Dementia, Pascale Barberger-Gateau, Luc Letenneur, Valerie Deschamps, Catherine Helmer, Colette Fabrigoule and Jean-Francois Dartigues. 9. Does Apolipoprotein E Polymorphism Determine the Survivability of Vascular Accidents at Advanced Ages? Implications for Mortality Differentials. Running head: Mortality and APOE, Elizabeth H. Corder, Lars Lannfelt, Matti Viitanen, Larry S. Corder and Bengt Winblad. 10. The Danish Longitudinal Centenarian Study, Karen Andersen-Ranberg and Bernard Jeune. 11. Gender and Healthy Aging, Emily Grundy. 12. Female Disadvantages among the Elderly in China, Zeng Yi, Liu Yuzhi and Linda K. George. 13. The Relationship between Occupational Status, Mobility and Mortality at Older Ages, Emmanuelle Cambois. Part III. The Family and Healthy Aging. Introduction to Part III, Zeng Yi. 14. Impact of Longer Life on CareGiving from Children, Jenny de Jong Gierveld and Pearl A. Dykstra. 15. Living Arrangement of the Oldest Old in China, Guo Zhigang. 16. Longevity among Chinese Consanguines, Yun Zhou and Qiang Ren. Part IV. Community Effects on Healthy Aging. Introduction to Part IV, Yves Carriere. 17. Socio-Demographic Factors Associated with the Use of Formal and Informal Support Networks among Elderly Canadians, Yves Carriere, Laurent Martel, Jacques Legare and Lucie Morin. 18. Variation in Cohort Size and Lower Mortality in the Elderly: Implications for Pay-As-You-Go Healthcare Systems, Jacques Legare, Robert Bourbeau, Bertrand Desjardins and Chad Deblois. 19. Successful Aging amongst the Very Old: Evidence from a Longitudinal Study of Aging, Gary Andrews, Michael Clark and Sam Davis. 20. Needs, Provision, and Financing of Care for Elderly, Madeleine Rochon. Index."Publisher Marketing: People are living longer and most countries are experiencing unprecedented increases in the number and proportion of their elderly populations, resulting from declines in mortality, lower fertility, and the baby boom cohorts entering old age. A fundamental issue facing the global community is meeting the challenges of population aging and achieving healthy aging to maintain an active older population and reduce the number of disabled people. Healthy aging is obviously a major goal of all societies and is the central theme of this book. The focus of this book is on theoretical issues and empirical findings related to trends and determinants of healthy aging, including factors related to healthy longevity of the oldest-old, aged 80 and over. The group is the most rapidly increasing elderly sub-population and is most likely to need assistance in daily living in all countries. Chapters include both longitudinal and cross-sectional data from North America, Europe & Asia

Contributor Bio:  Robine, Jean-Marie Jean-Marie Robine is a Research Director at the French National Institute of Health and Medical Research within the "CERMES Research group" in Paris and the "MMDN lab" in Montpellier where he heads the research team "Biodemography of longevity and vitality". He studies human longevity, with the aim of understanding the relations between health and longevity. Since its creation in 1989, he has been the coordinator of the "International Network on Health Expectancy" (REVES) which brings together more some 100 researchers worldwide. He is the project leader of the Joint Action European Life and Health Expectancy Information System which provides analysis of disability-free life expectancies in the European Union (Healthy Life Years-HLY). He is co-responsible for the development of the "International Database on Longevity" (IDL) in association with the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (Rostock) and INED (Paris). He is one of the principal investigators of the "Genetic of Healthy Ageing" project (GEHA) and the project leader of the healthy longevity project granted by AXA Research Fund: the" Five-Country Oldest Old Project" (5-COOP).