Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 487 pages) : illustrations (some color) |
Contents |
Intro -- Preface -- Contents -- About the Editors -- Part I Trends of Healthy Aging in China -- 1 Twenty Years' Follow-Up Surveys on Elder People's Health and Quality of Life -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 The Ageing of China's Population and Policy Changes During the Last Two Decades -- 1.3 The Beginning of CLHLS and Sampling Design of the Survey -- 1.4 The CLHLS Questionnaire and Key Modifications Over Time -- 1.4.1 The Core Components of the CLHLS Questionnaire -- 1.4.2 Major Modifications to the CLHLS Questionnaire -- 1.5 Data Quality Assessment -- 1.6 Data Use and Publications -- References |
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2 Trends in the Impact of Socioeconomic Status on Health with Increases in Ages: Convergence or Divergence? -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Literature Review and Research Design -- 2.3 Data and Research Methods -- 2.3.1 Data -- 2.3.2 Measures -- 2.3.3 Method -- 2.4 Results -- 2.4.1 Effect of Socioeconomic Status on Health -- 2.4.2 Verification of the "Convergence Effect" and the "Divergence Effect" -- 2.5 Conclusion -- References -- 3 The Age, Gender, Urban-Rural and Regional Differences in Dynamic Changes of Activity of Daily Living Among the Chinese Oldest-Old -- 3.1 Introduction |
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3.2 Basic Information of Respondents -- 3.3 Results of the Analyses -- 3.3.1 Trends in the Oldest-Old by Each Basic Activity of Daily Living -- 3.3.2 Differences and Trends in ADL Performance by Age Groups Among Oldest-Old Respondents -- 3.3.3 Differences in ADL Performance by Gender Among Oldest-Old Respondents -- 3.3.4 Differences and Trends in ADL Performance by Urban/Rural Residence Among Oldest-Old Respondents -- 3.3.5 Differences and Trends in ADL Performance by Region (East/Central/West) Among Oldest-Old Respondents -- 3.4 Conclusion -- Reference |
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4 Trends of Dynamic Changes in Activities of Daily Living, Physical Performance, Cognitive Function and Mortality Rates Among the Oldest-Old in China -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Methods -- 4.2.1 Study Design and Participants -- 4.2.2 Procedures and Variables -- 4.2.3 Statistical Analyses -- 4.2.4 Role of Funding Source -- 4.3 Results -- 4.4 Discussion -- References -- 5 Trends of Dynamic Changes of Family Support for the Chinese Oldest-Old -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Literature Review of Related Research -- 5.3 Main Data Resource and Research Methods -- 5.3.1 Data Resource |
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5.3.2 The Category of the Family Support for the Oldest-Old and Measurement -- 5.3.3 Methods -- 5.4 Changes of Family Support to the Oldest-Old in Different Time Periods -- 5.4.1 Changes in Family Support of the Oldest-Old Happened in Different Periods -- 5.4.2 The Perceived Support of the Oldest-Old in Different Periods -- 5.4.3 The Family Support Resource of the Oldest-Old in Different Periods -- 5.5 Changes of Family Support for the Oldest-Old from Different Cohorts -- 5.5.1 Change of Family Care Support for the Oldest-Old of Different Cohorts |
Summary |
This book studies healthy aging in China based on analyses of the datasets of eight waves of longitudinal survey in 1998-2018 with worldwide largest sample of oldest-old. It consists of four parts. The first part reports the 6th, 7th, and 8th surveys of "Chinese Longitudinal Healthy Longevity Survey" (CLHLS), with the largest sample of oldest-old aged 80+ in the world and comparable sample of young-old aged 6579, trends and characteristics of physical health and mental health of older adults in China based on analyses of the CLHLS datasets. The second part focuses on analyses and discussions of the influencing factors of healthy aging from perspectives of families, socioeconomics and community environments. The third part reports studies on the gender and age differences in main chronic diseases prevalence rates, inflammation, anti-oxidation, trace elements, effects of the nutritional dietary structure and the environmental selenium on health among the older adults. The fourth part focuses on the analyses and discussions of policy recommendations to face the serious challenges of the population aging in China and the database of the eight waves of CLHLS from 1998 to 2018, which are available free of charge to scholars, practitioners and general public for scientific research and socioeconomic planning. This book is easy to read and to understand by researchers and the general public, and no special professional background is required |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
Notes |
Translated from Chinese |
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed November 22, 2022) |
Subject |
Aging -- China
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Older people -- Medical care -- China
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Medical policy -- China
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Aging
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Medical policy
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Older people -- Medical care
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China
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Form |
Electronic book
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Author |
Zeng, Yi, editor
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Lu, Jiehua, editor
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Lei, Xiaoyan, editor
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Shi, Xiaoming, editor
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ISBN |
9789811941542 |
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9811941548 |
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