Longer Life and Healthy Aging

Zeng Yi, Eileen M. Crimmins, Yves Carrière and Jean-Marie Robine

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Front matter
1-4
Part 1 / Introduction
1-4
Introduction
7-106
Part I / Disability and Healthy Life Expectancy
7-22
Can We Live Longer, Healthier Lives?
23-34
Aging and Disability in Taiwan: Prevalence and Transitions from a Panel Study
35-47
Disability Patterns for Us Elderly Nursing Home Residents Over Two Decades: Findings from the 1973 to 1997 National Nursing Home Surveys
49-69
A Method for Correcting the Underestimation of Disabled Life Expectancy, with an Empirical Application to Oldest-Old in China
71-90
Effects of Diabetes on Healthy Life Expectancy: Shorter Lives with More Disability for Both Women and Men
91-106
Increasing Longevity: Causes, Consequences, and Prospects
Cardiovascular Disease Trends
111-234
Part II / Individual Healthy Aging
111-126
Age Differences in Allostatic Load: An Index of Frailty
127-140
Aging without Dementia
141-150
Does Apolipoprotein E Polymorphism Determine the Survivability of Vascular Accidents at Advanced Ages? Implications for Mortality Differentials
151-172
The Danish Longitudinal Centenarian Study
173-199
Gender and Healthy Aging
201-211
Female Disadvantages Among the Elderly in China
213-234
The Relationship Between Occupational Status, Mobility, and Mortality at Older Ages
239-281
Part III / The Family and Healthy Aging
239-259
Impact of Longer Life on Care Giving from Children
261-272
Living Arrangement of the Oldest Old in China
273-281
Longevity Among Chinese Consanguines
287-345
Part IV / Community Effects on Healthy Aging
287-304
Socio-Demographic Factors Associated with the Use of Formal and Informal Support Networks among Elderly Canadians
305-318
Variation in Cohort Size and Lower Mortality in the Elderly: Implications for Pay-As-You-Go Healthcare Systems
319-327
Successful Aging Amongst the Very Old—Evidence from a Longitudinal Study of Aging
329-345
Needs, Provision, and Financing of Care for Elderly
347-354
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About This Book

Title

Longer Life and Healthy Aging

Editors

Editor Affiliations

Duke University, Durham, NC USA
Beijing University, China
University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA USA
University of Montreal, QC Canada
University of Montpellier, France

Collection

Earth and Environmental Science

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Copyright Year

2006

DOI

10.1007/1-4020-4032-6

ISBN

978-1-4020-4024-5 (Print) 978-1-4020-4032-0 (Online)

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Springer Netherlands

SpringerLink Date

Wednesday, August 02, 2006

About This Book Series

Title: International Studies in Population
Coverage: Volume 1 / 2005 - Volume 9 / 2011
Collection: Not Assigned
Subjects: None Assigned
SpringerLink Date: Thursday, March 30, 2006

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