35 research outputs found
Factors affecting the survival probability of becoming a centenarian for those aged 70, based on the human mortality database: income, health expenditure, telephone, and sanitation
Understanding unequal ageing: towards a synthesis of intersectionality and life course analyses
Intersectionality has received an increasing amount of attention in health inequalities research in recent years. It suggests that treating social characteristics separately—mainly age, gender, ethnicity, and socio-economic position—does not match the reality that people simultaneously embody multiple characteristics and are therefore potentially subject to multiple forms of discrimination. Yet the intersectionality literature has paid very little attention to the nature of ageing or the life course, and gerontology has rarely incorporated insights from intersectionality. In this paper, we aim to illustrate how intersectionality might be synthesised with a life course perspective to deliver novel insights into unequal ageing, especially with respect to health. First we provide an overview of how intersectionality can be used in research on inequality, focusing on intersectional subgroups, discrimination, categorisation, and individual heterogeneity. We cover two key approaches—the use of interaction terms in conventional models and multilevel models which are particularly focussed on granular subgroup differences. In advancing a conceptual dialogue with the life course perspective, we discuss the concepts of roles, life stages, transitions, age/cohort, cumulative disadvantage/advantage, and trajectories. We conclude that the synergies between intersectionality and the life course hold exciting opportunities to bring new insights to unequal ageing and its attendant health inequalities
The Health and Retirement Study: Analysis of Associations Between Use of the Internet for Health Information and Use of Health Services at Multiple Time Points
Cross-sectional and longitudinal analyses of outdoor air pollution exposure and cognitive function in UK Biobank
Effect of short-term exposure to ambient air particulate matter on incidence of delirium in a surgical population
The Effects of Housework on the Health of Retired Older Adults: A Preliminary Investigation from the Tongji-Dongfeng Cohort Study, China
The impact of adult child emigration on the mental health of older parents
We explore whether older parents of adult children who emigrate experience,
in the short term, increases in depressive symptoms and loneliness feelings
compared to parents whose children do not migrate. We use data from the first two
waves of The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing, which is a nationally representative
sample of 8500 people aged 50+ living in Ireland. To deal with the endogeneity
of migration, we apply fixed-effects estimation models and control for a broad range
of life events occurring between the two waves. These include the emigration of a
child but also events such as bereavement, onset of disease, retirement and unemployment.
We find that depressive symptoms and loneliness feelings increase among
the parents of migrant children but that the effect is only present for mothers. As the
economic burden of mental health problems is high, our findings have potentially
significant impacts for migrant-sending regions and countries