Minority Aging and Health Economics Research Center
Our work in Minority Aging and Health Economics Research Center
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Some Blood Pressure Medications May Reduce Risk of Alzheimer’s, But Not For All Populations
Certain antihypertensive medications may prevent the onset of the disease, but only among black and white women and white men.
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Racial and Ethnic Differences in Trends in Dementia Prevalence and Risk Factors in the United States
The researchers find disparities in dementia prevalence declined between blacks and whites and increased between Hispanics and whites.
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Mass Incarceration, Racial Disparities in Health, and Successful Aging
Over the past forty years, the United States has taken part in an experiment in mass incarceration. This article explores the impact that mass incarceration might have on successful aging and racial disparities in aging outcomes.
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Education and Psychosocial Functioning Among Older Adults: 4-Year Change in Sense of Control and Hopelessness
In this study, researchers found a cumulative advantage of higher levels of education for psychosocial functioning in older adults.
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Disentangling the Stress Process: Race Differences in the Experience of Chronic Stressors
Older blacks and US-born and foreign-born Hispanics report more chronic stress exposure than whites and are two to three times as likely to experience financial strain and housing-related stress.
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Recent Trends in Life Expectancy Across High Income Countries: Retrospective Observational Study
Jessica Ho and Arun Hendi assessed whether declines in life expectancy occurred in other high income countries during 2014-16, the main age groups and causes of death contributing to these declines, and the extent to which these declines were driven by shared or differing factors across countries.
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Racial Stratification, Immigration, and Health Inequality: A Life Course-Intersectional Approach
While health inequalities related to race/ethnicity, nativity, and age are well documented, it remains unclear how these axes of stratification combine to shape health trajectories, especially in middle and late life. This study addresses gaps in the literature.
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Understanding the Racial/Ethnic Gap in Bank Account Ownership among Older Adults
The researchers investigate socioeconomic, cognitive, and cultural barriers underling the racial/ethnic gap in bank account ownership among older adults.
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Change in Cardiometabolic Risk Among Blacks, Whites and Hispanics: Findings from the Health and Retirement Study
Blacks experience greater multi-system physiological dysregulation, or cumulative biological risk, which is associated with poor cardiometabolic health and mortality. In this study, the researchers assess race differences in change in risk over four years among older whites, blacks and Hispanics.
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Health Insurance and the Aging: Evidence from the Seguro Popular Program in Mexico
The researchers estimate impacts of Seguro Popular for the population aged 50 and older on a set of indicators related to health care including utilization, diagnostic/preventive tests, and treatment conditional on being ill.