Lifetime Socioeconomic Status and Late-life Health Trajectories: Longitudinal Results From the Mexican Health and Aging Study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

This article examines the association between childhood and adult socioeconomic status (SES) and late-life health trajectories for older adults in Mexico.

Method

Data are from the Mexican Health and Aging Study, a panel survey that began with a nationally representative sample of Mexican adults 50 years and older at baseline (2001), with follow-up in 2003 and 2012. We use a hierarchical repeated measures model to estimate the relationship between SES and depressive symptoms, functional limitations, and self-rated health, respectively. We tested both discrete measures of SES in childhood and adulthood, as well as a combined indicator of lifetime SES.

Results

Childhood SES was significantly associated with later-life health trajectories net of adulthood SES in

SUBMITTER: Torres JM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5927147 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature