Title | Time-to-death patterns in markers of age and dependency |
Publication Type | Journal Article |
Year of Publication | 2017 |
Authors | Riffe, T, Chung, PH, Spijker, J, MacInnes, J |
Secondary Authors | Lutz, W |
Journal | Vienna Yearbook of Population Research |
Volume | 1 |
Pagination | 229-254 |
ISSN Number | 1728-4414 |
Keywords | Disabilities, Gender Differences, Mortality |
Abstract | We aim to determine the extent to which variables commonly used to describe health, well-being, and disability in old age vary primarily as a function of years lived (chronological age), years left (thanatological age), or as a function of both. We analyze data from the U.S. Health and Retirement Study to estimate chronological age and time-to-death patterns in 78 such variables.We describe results for the birth cohort 1915-1919 in the final 12 years of life. Our results show that most of the markers used to study well-being in old age vary along both the age and the timeto- death dimensions, but that some markers are exclusively a function of either time to death or chronological age, while other markers display different patterns in men and women. |
URL | http://hw.oeaw.ac.at/1728-4414http://hw.oeaw.ac.at/populationyearbook2016http://hw.oeaw.ac.at?arp=0x0036e636 |
DOI | 10.1553/populationyearbook10.1553/populationyearbook201610.1553/populationyearbook2016s229 |
Short Title | Populationyearbook |
Citation Key | 9411 |