@article {9411, title = {Time-to-death patterns in markers of age and dependency}, journal = {Vienna Yearbook of Population Research}, volume = {1}, year = {2017}, pages = {229-254}, 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.}, keywords = {Disabilities, Gender Differences, Mortality}, issn = {1728-4414}, doi = {10.1553/populationyearbook10.1553/populationyearbook201610.1553/populationyearbook2016s229}, url = {http://hw.oeaw.ac.at/1728-4414http://hw.oeaw.ac.at/populationyearbook2016http://hw.oeaw.ac.at?arp=0x0036e636}, author = {Riffe, Tim and Chung, Pil H. and Spijker, Jeroen and MacInnes, John}, editor = {Lutz, Wolfgang} }