• Longitudinal Study of Mexican American Elderly Health Funded in 1992 by the National Institute on Aging, the Longitudinal Study of Mexican American Elderly Health project (H-EPESE) is the first large-scale epidemiologic investigation of the health of 3,050 Mexican Americans aged 65 and over living in five Southwestern States-- Texas, California, Arizona, Colorado, and New Mexico. One of the unique aspects of this longitudinal study is that we are collecting both self-reported information as well as performance-based measures of activity limitations on a large panel of older Mexican Americans. As a co-investigator, my participation in this project has involved analyses of the impact of nativity and the migration process on health outcomes, and their implications for long-term care policy. Ultimately, I am seeking to understand how elderly Mexican Americans continue to stay in the community despite physical frailty and financial difficulties. See publications below:
  
  
  
  • 2004. "Can the Family Still Cope? Social Support and Health as Determinants of Nursing Home Use in the Older Mexican-origin Population." Journal of Aging and Health 16:338-354. (with Ronald J. Angel, Maria Aranda, and Toni P. Miles)
    
    
  • 2003. "La salud física y mental de los Mexicanos migrantes mayores en Los Estados Unidos." Pp. 153-172 in (V. Nelly Salgado de Snyder and Rebecca Wong, eds.) Envejeciendo en La Pobreza: Una Género, Salud y Calidad De Vida. Cuernavaca, Morelos, México: Instituto Nacional de Salud Pública. (with Ronald J. Angel and Kyriakos S. Markides)
    
    
  • 2003. "Financial Strain and Health among Older Mexican Americans." Journal of Health and Social Behavior 44(4). (with Ronald J. Angel, Michelle Frisco, and David Chiriboga)
    
    
  • 2003. "Gender, Widowhood, and Long-term Care in the Older Mexican American Population." Journal of Women and Aging 15:89-103. Reprinted in Carol L. Jenkins (ed.) Widows and Divorcees in Later Life: On Their Own Again. The Haworth Press, Binghamton, New York. (with Nora Douglas, and Ronald J. Angel)

    
    
  • 2002. "Stability and Change in Health Insurance Among Older Mexican Americans: Longitudinal Evidence from the Hispanic Established Populations for Epidemiologic Study of the Elderly." American Journal of Public Health 92:1264-1271 (with Ronald J. Angel and Kyriakos S. Markides).

    
    
  • 2000. "Late Life Immigration, Changes in Living Arrangements and Headship Status among Older Mexican-Origin Individuals." Social Science Quarterly 81:389-403 (with Ronald J. Angel, and Kyriakos S. Markides).
    
    
    
  • 1999. "Age at Migration and Family Dependency Among Older Mexican Immigrants: Recent Evidence from the Mexican American EPESE." The Gerontologist 39:59-65 (with Ronald J. Angel, Geum-Yong Lee, and Kyriakos S. Markides).
    
    
  • 1998. "Aging Trends: Mexican-Americans in the Southwestern USA." Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology 13:281-290 (with Ronald J. Angel).
    
    
  • 1996. "Nativity, Declining Health, and Preferences in Living Arrangements among Elderly Mexican Americans: Implications for Long-term Care." The Gerontologist 36:464-473 (with Ronald J. Angel, Judi L. McClellan, and Kyriakos S. Markides).
    
    
  • 1997. "Health Service Use and Long-Term Care Among Hispanics." Pp. 343-366 in Kyriakos S. Markides and Manuel R. Miranda (eds.) Minorities, Aging and Health. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications (with Ronald J. Angel).
    

  
  

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• Hispanic Health and Retirement Policy Project
  As the number of Americans nearing retirement increases, demographers, public policy makers, and gerontologists point to the importance of diversity within the older population. By the year 2026 every fourth person of retirement age will be either of African-American, Hispanic or Asian origin. Diversity alone is not a cause of concern, however, in American society minority group membership is strongly correlated with decreased access to social and public goods and services. The aim of this project, therefore, is to examine the "demography of disadvantage" among the pre-retirement population and to assess the ways in which changing needs for assistance varies with social characteristics, and ensuing health implications. See related papers below.
  
  
  • 2003. "Devolution and the Social Welfare of Elderly Immigrants: Who Will Bear the Burden?" Public Administration Review 63:79-89.
    
    
  • 2001. "Duration or Disadvantage? Exploring Nativity, Ethnicity, and Health in Midlife." Journal of Gerontology: Social Sciences 56B:S275-S284 (with Cynthia J. Buckley, and Arthur Sakamoto).
    
    
  • 2001. "Nativity and Self-Assessed Health among Pre-retirement Age Hispanics and non-Hispanic Whites." International Migration Review 35(3):784-804 (with Cynthia J. Buckley, and Brian K. Finch).
    
    
  • 2000. "Nativity and Older Women's Health: Constructed Reliance in the Health and Retirement Study." Journal of Women and Aging 13:21-37 (with Cynthia J. Buckley and Dennis Donahue).
    
    
  • 1996. "The Extent of Private and Public Health Insurance Coverage Among Adult Hispanics." The Gerontologist 36:332-340 (with Ronald J. Angel).
    
    

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