Health and Living Arrangement Transitions among China’s Oldest-old

Springer Series on Demographic Methods and Population Analysis

Volumn 20, Issue , 2008, Pages 215-234

  Zimmer, Zachary ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

Activities of daily living; Age; Aging; Altruism; China; Chinese Healthy Longevity Survey; Cognition; Family; Filial piety; Functional limitations; Gender; Health; Health disorders; Living alone; Living arrangements; Living with children; Living with others; Living with spouse; Longitudinal analysis; Marital status; Medical health; Mini mental state exam; Multinomial regression; Oldestold; Panel data; Social change; Social support; Traditional family; Transitional model

Indexed keywords

EID: 79751474121     PISSN: 18772560     EISSN: 22151990     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-6752-5_13     Document Type: Chapter

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