Increased adult child schooling and older parents' health behaviors in Europe: A quasi-experimental study.

ABSTRACT: There is growing evidence that adult child educational attainment is associated with older parents' physical health and longevity. Scholars have hypothesized that these associations may be driven by health-behavior pathways, whereby adult children with more education may share information about healthy lifestyles, role-model healthier behaviors, and/or have more economic resources to support leisure-based physical activity or the purchase of healthy foods for older parents. However, this relationship has not been comprehensively evaluated with methods capable of addressing the confounding bias expected for observational studies on this topic. We estimated the association between increased adult child schooling and older parents' health behaviors using data from the Survey for Health, Aging

SUBMITTER: Torres JM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9287559 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature