Longitudinal Study of Older Adults and their Families in Mexico

描述（由申请人提供）：该项目将开发老年人的纵向数据集，并将其置于公共领域，该数据集反映了有关老龄化的健康和社会科学调查的最新状况。这项研究将在墨西哥实施，这是一个快速变化的低收入社会。我们将为老年人开发一系列创新模块，这些模块将被纳入对所有年龄的成年人进行的更广泛的调查，从而开发一个丰富的数据库，专门用于捕捉老年人在整个生命过程中的健康和福祉的重要方面。年龄较大的受访者将从墨西哥家庭生活调查（MxFLS）的参与者中抽取，这是一项正在进行的具有全国代表性的纵向调查，涉及个人、家庭、家庭和社区，2002年和2005年分别采访了35000多人。2008年和2011年将进行额外的调查。在该项目的支持下，将在2008年和2011年对11,000多名40岁及以上的受访者进行单独评估，以形成墨西哥老年人及其家庭纵向调查（MxLSOAF）。这将产生四个时间点的观察结果，跨越近十年的受访者的生活，因为他们中的大多数人是在MxFLS的前两波采访的。2008年和2011年，答复者将提供详细资料，说明健康状况和保健、工作和收入、养恤金、公共转移支付、亲属网络以及网络成员（包括非共同居民亲属）之间的转移支付；财富，移民和生活安排以及为该项目设计的新措施，态度和偏好。为了补充这一信息，一套从每位老年受访者身上收集的创新生物标志物将测量与代谢综合征相关的风险因素，代谢综合征是墨西哥的一个关键问题，墨西哥的肥胖、心血管疾病和糖尿病的患病率与美国相当。这些数据将产生关于墨西哥老年人的独特丰富信息，反映他们当前和过去的决定。它可以与整个年龄段的所有家庭成员和非共同居住家庭的信息联系起来。这些数据非常适合用于测试有关老年人行为的新假设，以及评估旨在改善墨西哥老年人口福祉的新公共项目。在父母项目中，所有墨西哥境内的移民和移民到美国的人都被跟踪和采访，这提供了无与伦比的机会来检查自己和其他家庭成员的移民对墨西哥老年人健康和福祉的影响。MxLSOAF旨在与美国、英国、欧洲和其他地方正在进行的数据收集活动进行比较。因此，该项目将大大有助于发展公共卫生数据基础设施，这是在不同背景下对全球老龄化问题进行科学研究所必需的。将编制关于墨西哥老年人健康和福祉的新的纵向数据，并将其置于公共领域，供整个科学界使用。这些数据不仅将为了解墨西哥老年人的健康状况提供重要的新见解，而且还将为更好地了解全球老龄化对当前和未来公共卫生政策的影响所必需的研究基础设施作出重大贡献。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This project will develop, field and place in the public domain, a longitudinal data set of older adults that reflects the state-of-the art with respect to health and social science surveys of aging. The study will be implemented in Mexico, a rapidly changing, low income society. We will develop a series of innovative modules for older adults, which will be incorporated into a broader survey of adults of all ages, and thereby develop an enriched data base that is specifically designed to capture important dimensions of the health and well-being of the elderly over the life course. Older respondents will be drawn from participants in the Mexican Family Life Survey (MxFLS) an ongoing nationally-representative longitudinal survey of individuals, household, families and communities of over 35,000 people interviewed in 2002 and again in 2005. Additional resurveys will be conducted in 2008 and 2011. With support from this project, over 11,000 respondents age 40 and older will be individually assessed in 2008 and 2011 to form the Mexican Longitudinal Survey of Older Adults and their Families, MxLSOAF. This will yield observations at four points in time spanning nearly a decade of the respondents' lives since most of them were interviewed in the first two waves of MxFLS. In 2008 and 2011, respondents will provide detailed information on health status and health care, work and earnings, pensions, public transfers, kin networks and transfers among network members including non co-resident kin; wealth, migration and living arrangements along with new measures of expectations, attitudes and preferences designed for this project. To complement this information, an innovative set of biomarkers collected from every older respondent will measure risk factors associated with the metabolic syndrome which is a key concern in Mexico where the prevalence of obesity, cardio-vascular disease and diabetes rivals that in the U.S. The data will yield uniquely rich information on older adults in Mexico, reflecting their current and past decisions, which can be linked with information about all household members and non co-resident family across the entire age spectrum. The data are ideally suited to test novel hypotheses about the behavior or older adults as well as evaluate new public programs intended to improve the well-being of Mexico's older population. In the parent project, all movers within Mexico and those who move to the U.S. are followed and interviewed which provides unparalleled opportunities to examine the impact of one's own migration, and that of other family members, on the health and well-being of older Mexicans. MxLSOAF is designed to be comparable with on-going data collection activities in the U.S., U.K., Europe and elsewhere. The project will thereby contribute significantly to the development of public health data infrastructure necessary for scientific research on global aging across substantially different contexts. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE New longitudinal data on the health and well-being of older adults in Mexico will be developed and placed in the public domain for use by the entire scientific community. These data will not only provide important new insights into the health of older Mexicans but also significantly contribute to the research infrastructure necessary to better understand the implications of global aging for current and future public health policy.