Publication Type
Journal Article
Publication Date
8-2013
Abstract
With data going back to pre-World War II, the HRS paints a picture of how we will age . As people age, men are less likely to have physical disabilities than women, but die earlier. Those with higher socio-economic status and education levels have less physical disabilities as they grow old. Less educated single women are often the least financially prepared for retirement.
Those are the main findings of the U.S. Health and Retirement Study (HRS), described as "the mother ship" of statistics on aging by Michael Hurd, Principal Senior Researcher and Director at the RAND Center for the Study of Aging in California, USA.
Keywords
Ageing, physical disabilities, health trajectory.
Disciplines
Diseases | Health Psychology | Medicine and Health Sciences
Copyright Owner and Holder
Copyright © Singapore Management University 2013
Licece/Creative Commons Licence
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 International License.
Subject(s)
Health status indicators, Medical research, Population health.
Citation
Singapore Management University.
Predicting health trajectories. (2013).
Available at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/pers/42