Longitudinal Study of Older Adults and their Families in Mexico

该项目将开发、整理并在公共领域提供一套纵向数据集， 反映健康和社会科学方面最先进水平的老年人 老龄化调查该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， 将纳入对所有年龄段成年人的更广泛调查，从而制定一项 丰富的数据库，专门设计用于捕获 健康和幸福的老年人的生命历程。 将从墨西哥家庭生活方案的参与者中抽取年龄较大的答卷人。 调查（MxFLS）是一项正在进行的具有全国代表性的个人纵向调查， 2002年，对35 000多人的住户、家庭和社区进行了访谈， 2005年再次。2008年和2011年将进行更多的重新调查。支持下 在这个项目中，超过11，000名40岁及以上的受访者将接受单独评估 在2008年和2011年，墨西哥老年人及其 家庭，MxLSOAF。这将产生四个时间点的观测结果， 由于大多数受访者是在前两年接受采访的， MxFLS波。在2008年和2011年，答卷人将提供以下方面的详细信息： 健康状况和医疗保健、工作和收入、养恤金、公共转移、亲属关系 包括非共同居住亲属在内的网络成员之间的网络和转移;财富， 移民和生活安排沿着新的期望、态度和 为这个项目设计的偏好。为了补充这一信息， 从每一位老年受访者身上收集的一组生物标志物将测量风险因素 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丰富信息，反映出 他们当前和过去的决定，这可以与有关所有人的信息联系起来， 家庭成员和非共同居住的家庭在整个年龄范围。的 数据非常适合测试关于老年人行为的新假设， 以及评估旨在改善墨西哥人民福祉的新公共项目， 老年人口。在母项目中，墨西哥境内的所有搬家者和那些搬到 美国被跟踪和采访，这提供了无与伦比的机会， 研究自己和其他家庭成员的移民对家庭的影响， 老年人的健康和福利。 MxLSOAF旨在与正在进行的数据收集活动进行比较 在美国，英国，欧洲和其他地方。因此，该项目将大大有助于 发展科学研究所需的公共卫生数据基础设施 在不同的背景下研究全球老龄化。将编制关于墨西哥老年人健康和福祉的新的纵向数据， 公共领域供整个科学界使用。这些数据不仅提供了重要的新信息， 深入了解墨西哥老年人的健康状况，但也大大有助于研究基础设施， 为了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，有必要进行研究。

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.