Poster Session 4: Aging

Friday, Apr 2 8:00 AM - 10:00 AM Constitution Ballroom 2nd Floor

1.	Mortality Differences in the U.S. Oldest-Old Population by Nativity  •   Kirill F. Andreev, Queen's University

2.	Linear Body Proportions: An Alternative Measure of Human Health and Development  •   Solveig Argeseanu, University of Pennsylvania; Jan Van den Broeck, Africa Center for Health and Population Studies; Banyana C. Madi, University of Southampton

3.	Self-Reported Health among Foreign-Born Elderly: Predictive Factors and Objective Comparisons  •   Ann D. Bagchi, Rutgers University

4.

Life Course Determinants of Poor Psycho-Social Health in Adulthood: Young Motherhood as a Mediating Pathway  •   Ann Berrington, University of Southampton; Riccardo Borgoni, University of Southampton; Roger Ingham, University of Southampton; Peter W.F. Smith, University of Southampton; Jim E. Stevenson, University of Southampton

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The Impact of Changing Family Structure on the Needs for Home Care Services in an Aging Society: The Canadian Case  •   Yves Carriere, Statistics Canada; Jacques Legare, Université de Montréal; Janice Keefe, Mount Saint Vincent University; Laurent Martel, Statistics Canada; Geoff Rowe, Statistics Canada; Xiaofen Lin, Statistics Canada

6.	Gender Differences in Health Status among Older Singaporeans  •   Angelique Chan, National University of Singapore; Santosh Jatrana, Asian MetaCentre for Population and Sustainable Development Analysis

7.	Maximum Normal Longevity in Low Mortality Countries  •   Siu Lan Karen Cheung, Università di Roma "La Sapienza"; Jean-Marie Robine, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)

8.	Grandparenting: Still a Family Exchange for Older People?  •   Lynda Clarke, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

9.	Why Do Late Parents Live Longer?  •   Gabriele Doblhammer, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research

10.	Gender Differences in Older People with Regard to Suicide Risks after Somatic Hospitalization  •   Annette Erlangsen, Syddansk Universitet

11.	Intergenerational Assistance in Middle- and Old-Age in Mexico: Life Cycle Stages in a Developing Economy  •   Monica Espinoza, University of Pennsylvania; Rebeca Wong, University of Maryland

12.

The Biodemographic Models of Reproductive Aging (BIMORA) Project: Methods and Steroid Hormone and Menstrual Cycle Findings in a Five Year Prospective of the Transition to Menopause  •   Rebecca J. Ferrell, Georgetown University; Kathleen A. O'Connor, University of Washington; Darryl J. Holman, University of Washington; Eleanor Brindle, University of Washington; Rebecca C. Miller, University of Washington; Deborah E. Schechter, University of Washington; Tristan Gorrindo, Georgetown University; Lauren Korshalla, Georgetown University; James Simon, Women's Health Research Center and George Washington University; Ann Voda, University of Utah; James W. Wood, Pennsylvania State University; Phyllis Kernoff Mansfield, Pennsylvania State University; Maxine Weinstein, Georgetown University

13.	Exchanges between the Elderly, Children, and Siblings in Bangladesh  •   Sharon J. Ghuman, University of Michigan; Mary Beth Ofstedal, University of Michigan

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The Effects of Fertility Decline on Family Structure and Support for Older Persons in Latin America and Asia  •   Karen F. Glaser, King's College London; Elizabeth Costenbader, Johns Hopkins University; Antonio Camargo, Fundação Sistema Estadual de Análise de Dados (SEADE); Belkis Trench, Universidade de São Paulo

15.	The Baby Boomers in Puerto Rico: The Effect of Their Sociodemographic Characteristics on the Aging Population  •   Manuel Güivas, University of Puerto Rico

16.	Disabilities and Health Expectancy in Mexico  •   Roberto Ham-Chande, El Colegio de la Frontera Norte

17.	Profile of the 65+ Population in the United States  •   Wan He, U.S. Census Bureau

18.	The Anticipated Ideas about Retirement Life and Retirement Timing  •   Jeong Hwa Ho, University of Wisconsin at Madison

19.	Health of Older Adults in Singapore: Is Nativity an Important Determinant?  •   Santosh Jatrana, Asian MetaCentre for Population and Sustainable Development Analysis; Angelique Chan, National University of Singapore

20.	Social Security and Living Arrangements of the Elderly in Developing Countries  •   Yumiko Kamiya, University of California, Berkeley

21.	Timing of Retirement and Transition of Paid Employment in Relation to Family Obligations  •   Paula M. Kazi, Michigan State University

22.	The Impact of 1996 Welfare Reform on Immigration of Older Persons  •   Jibum Kim, University of Chicago and NORC

23.	Longitudinal Survival Data and Problems of Nonlinear Dynamics  •   Aliaksandr Kulminski, Duke University

24.	Old-Age Pensions and Joint Retirement Decisions in South Africa  •   David Lam, University of Michigan; Murray Leibbrandt, University of Cape Town; Vimal Ranchhod, University of Michigan

25.	Modeling the Effect of Nutritional Support Programs on Health Outcomes  •   Vicki L. Lamb, Duke University

26.	Use of Computers and the Internet among Older Adults in the United States and the P. R. of China: A Cross-Cultural Study  •   Bob Du Lee, Pennsylvania State University; Geoffrey Godbey, Pennsylvania State University; Yaoyin Zhu, Ministry of Civil Affairs, People's Republic of China

27.	Uncertainty, Health, Wealth, and Wealth Transfers  •   Jinkook Lee, Ohio State University

28.	Who Should Be Responsible for the Latter-Life Security of Mid-Aged Koreans?  •   Sang Lim Lee, Utah State University; Doo-Sub Kim, Hanyang University

29.	Veteran Status and Transitions in Functional Conditions in Older Americans  •   Xian Liu, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USUHS); Charles Engel, Jr., Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USUHS); Han Kang, Department of Veterans Affairs

30.	Longitudinal Impacts of Preexisting Conditions on Future Health Outcomes among Aged Minority Populations in the United States  •   Beverly P. Lyons, Long Island University

31.	Impact of Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors in Middle Age on Later Ages of Life -- a Life Course Approach  •   Abdullah Al Mamun, University of Groningen; Anna Peeters, Erasmus University; Frans Willekens, University of Groningen; Luc Bonneux, Erasmus University

32.	Ageing and Human Development: A Case Study of Rural India  •   Nihar R. Mishra, International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS); Sanjay Kumar Mohanty, International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS)

33.	Factors Associated with Death among Elderly People in Matlab, Bangladesh  •   Golam Mostafa, ICDDR,B: Centre for Health and Population Research; Abdur Razzaque, ICDDR,B: Centre for Health and Population Research

34.	Tallness Comes with Higher Mortality in Two Cohorts of U.S. Army Officers, Which May Be Only Partly Cancer Related  •   Ulrich Mueller, Philipps-Universität Marburg; Allan Mazur, Syracuse University

35.	Comparison of the Factors to Affect Pension Costs among the High-Income Countries  •   Hideaki Nakamura, University of California, Berkeley

36.	Who Will Want to Stay in a Home for the Elderly: Financial Strain, Kin Availability, and Attitudes toward Staying in Homes for the Elderly among Older Adults in the Philippines  •   Josefina Natividad, University of the Philippines

37.	Living Arrangements of Lebanese Unmarried Elderly Women  •   Maya I. Obeid, American University of Beirut; Marwan Khawaja, American University of Beirut

38.	Adult and Elderly Mortality in Brazil: Keys and Transitions  •   Neir A. Paes, Federal University of Paraiba

39.	Older Workers Managing a Disability: An Examination of Gender Differences  •   Amy Pienta, University of Michigan; Tyson H. Brown, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

40.	Health Changes of the Elderly in China from 1987, 1992 to 2000, by Gender and Age  •   Xiaochun Qiao, Renmin University of China

41.	Presence of Elderly in Urban Indian Families: Conflict and Resolution of Family Members  •   Sunanda Rabindranathan, Centre for Women's Development Studies

42.	Health Transitions among Elderly Japanese: Do Patterns Differ by Gender and SES?  •   Yasuhiko Saito, Nihon University

43.	Aging and Mortality among Elderly Costa Ricans  •   Carolina Santamaria, Universidad de Costa Rica; Luis Rosero-Bixby, Universidad de Costa Rica

44.	Assessing the Effects of Marital Disruption on Disability and Mortality  •   Barbara Schone, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), HHS; Liliana E. Pezzin, Medical College of Wisconsin

45.	Health Profile of the 65+ Population in the United States  •   Manisha Sengupta, U.S. Census Bureau

46.	Healthy Life Expectancy among Mexican and Mexican Americans: A Cross National Comparison  •   Ching-Yi A. Shieh, University of Maryland

47.	Validating the Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression Scale (CES-D) for Use among Older Adults in Nepal  •   Sujan Shrestha, University of Florida

48.	Intergenerational Transfers in Rural Chinese Families: A Corporate Model of Exchange across Three Generations  •   Merril Silverstein, University of Southern California; Shuzhuo Li, Xi'an Jiaotong University; Wenjuan Zhang, Xi'an Jiaotong University

49.	Informal and Formal Longterm Care of Frail Older Adults in Cairo, Egypt  •   Michele A. Sinunu, Emory University; Nadia El-Afifi, Palestine Hospital

50.	Educational Differences in the Rate of Cognitive Decline  •   Kristen Suthers, National Institute on Aging (NIA), NIH; Eileen Crimmins, University of Southern California

51.	Classes of Disability Trajectories in Later Life for Community-Dwelling and Institutionalized Older Adults  •   Miles G. Taylor, Duke University

52.	Chronic Fatigue Syndrome as Vestige of Early Aging and Neurodegeneration  •   Sergiy V. Volovyk, Duke University; Kenneth G. Manton, Duke University

54.	Health Behaviors and the Role of Job Conditions: Smoking Cessation and Work Transitions through Young Adulthood and Midlife  •   Margaret M. Weden, Johns Hopkins University

55.	Health, Social Support, and Housing Transitions among Older Adults  •   Janet Wilmoth, Syracuse University

57.	Do the Parents and Siblings of the Longevous Chinese Also Live Longer? Familial Factors on Mortality  •   Danzhen You, University of California, Berkeley

58.	Altruistic Bequest Motives and Living Arrangements of Elderly Parents  •   Yiduo Zhang, Johns Hopkins University

59.	Who Will Care for the Elderly in China? A Review of the Problems Caused by China's One Child Policy and Their Potential Solutions  •   Yuanting Zhang, Bowling Green State University; Franklin Goza, Bowling Green State University

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Trends and Transitions in Child-Coresidence among Older Adults Living in the Beijing Municipality  •   Zachary Zimmer, Population Council; Xianghua Fang, Beijing Municipal Network for Health & Care of the Elderly; Zhe Tang, Beijing Municipal Network for Health & Care of the Elderly; Julia Kwong, University of Manitoba

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