Trajectories of Aging Among U.S. Older Adults: Mixed Evidence for a Hispanic Paradox.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

A well-documented paradox is that Hispanics tend to live longer than non-Hispanic Whites (NHW), despite structural disadvantages. We evaluate whether the "Hispanic paradox" extends to more comprehensive longitudinal aging classifications and examine how lifecourse factors relate to these groupings.

Methods

We used biennial data (1998-2014) on adults aged 65 years and older at baseline from the Health and Retirement Study. We use joint latent class discrete time and growth curve modeling to identify trajectories of aging, and multinomial logit models to determine whether U.S.-born (USB-H) and Foreign-born (FB-H) Hispanics experience healthier styles of aging than non-Hispanic Whites (NHW), and test how lifecycle factors influence this relationship.

Results

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SUBMITTER: Tarraf W 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7357956 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature