Longitudinal Study of Older Adults and their Families in Mexico

该项目将在公共领域实地和地点开发一个纵向数据集 反映了健康和社会科学的最新水平的老年人 关于老龄化的调查。这项研究将在墨西哥实施，变化很快，很低 收入社会。我们将为老年人开发一系列创新模块，其中 将被纳入对所有年龄段的成年人的更广泛的调查，从而制定 丰富的数据库，专门设计用于捕获 老年人一生中的健康和福祉。 年龄较大的受访者将从墨西哥家庭生活的参与者中抽出 调查(MxFLS)正在进行的具有全国代表性的个人纵向调查， 2002年访问了超过35,000人的家庭、家庭和社区 2005年又一次。2008年和2011年将进行更多的重新审查。有了支持 从这个项目中，将对超过11,000名年龄在40岁及以上的受访者进行单独评估 在2008年和2011年成立了墨西哥老年人和他们的纵向调查 家庭，MxLSOAF。这将产生四个时间点的观测，时间跨度近一年 受访者自前两年接受采访以来的十年生活 MxFLS的浪潮。在2008和2011年，受访者将提供有关 健康状况和医疗保健、工作和收入、养老金、公共转移、亲人 网络成员之间的网络和转移，包括非共同居住的亲属；财富， 移民和生活安排以及对期望、态度的新衡量 以及为该项目设计的首选项。为了补充这一信息，一个创新的 从每个年长的受访者那里收集的一套生物标记物将衡量风险因素 与代谢综合征有关，这是墨西哥的一个关键问题 肥胖、心血管疾病和糖尿病的患病率与美国不相上下。 这些数据将产生关于墨西哥老年人的独特丰富的信息，反映出 他们现在和过去的决定，这些决定可以与所有 整个年龄段的家庭成员和非共同居住家庭。这个 数据非常适合于测试关于行为或老年人的新假设 以及评估旨在改善墨西哥人民福祉的新公共项目 人口老龄化。在父项目中，墨西哥境内的所有搬家人员和那些搬到 美国被跟踪和采访，这提供了无与伦比的机会 审视自己和其他家庭成员的迁徙对 老年墨西哥人的健康和福祉。 MxLSOAF旨在与正在进行的数据收集活动相媲美 在美国、英国、欧洲和其他地方。因此，该项目将作出重大贡献 用于发展科学研究所需的公共卫生数据基础设施 在本质上不同的背景下的全球老龄化。将开发关于墨西哥老年人健康和福祉的新的纵向数据，并将放在 供整个科学界使用的公共领域。这些数据不仅将提供重要的新的 对墨西哥老年人健康状况的洞察也对研究基础设施做出了重大贡献 有必要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。

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. 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.