Dental care use and other population characteristics of older Americans with self‐reported chronic conditions in the health and retirement study

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Moeller ◽  
Richard Manski ◽  
Haiyan Chen ◽  
Chad Meyerhoefer ◽  
John Pepper ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Dental Care ◽  
Chronic Conditions ◽  
Population Characteristics ◽  
Health And Retirement Study ◽  
Older Americans ◽  
Retirement Study

scholarly journals PATTERNS OF DRIVING IN OLDER AMERICANS OVER 14 YEARS: FINDINGS FROM THE HEALTH AND RETIREMENT STUDY

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (suppl_1) ◽  
pp. 1195-1195
Author(s):  
E. Dugan ◽  
Y. Shih ◽  
C. Lee
Keyword(s):  
Health And Retirement Study ◽  
Older Americans ◽  
Retirement Study

The Changing Face of Debt and Financial Fragility at Older Ages

2018 ◽  
Vol 108 ◽  
pp. 407-411 ◽  
Author(s):  
Annamaria Lusardi ◽  
Olivia S. Mitchell ◽  
Noemi Oggero
Keyword(s):  
Policy Implications ◽  
Financial Fragility ◽  
Health And Retirement Study ◽  
Older Individuals ◽  
Older Americans ◽  
Down Payments ◽  
Using Data ◽  
Retirement Study

We investigate changes in older individuals' financial fragility as they stand on the verge of retirement. Using data from the Health and Retirement Study (HRS), we compare how debt has changed for successive cohorts of people age 56–61. Our analysis shows that recent older Americans close to retirement hold more debt, and hence face greater financial insecurity, than earlier generations. This is primarily due to having bought more expensive homes with smaller down payments. We discuss possible policy implications.

Recent trends in wealth inequality among older Americans in two surveys

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-22
Author(s):  
Gabor Kezdi ◽  
Margaret Lay ◽  
David Weir
Keyword(s):  
Social Security ◽  
Wealth Inequality ◽  
Health And Retirement Study ◽  
Survey Of Consumer Finances ◽  
Older Americans ◽  
Consumer Finances ◽  
Recent Trends ◽  
Social Security Wealth ◽  
Retirement Study

We document changes in wealth inequality across American households with a member aged 55 or older, comparing data in the Health and Retirement Study (HRS) with that in the Survey of Consumer Finances (SCF) between 1998 and 2016. We examine net wealth including housing, financial and nonfinancial assets and debt, without the cash value of insurances, DB pensions or Social Security wealth. We find very similar distributions of net wealth in the two surveys between the 25th and 90th percentiles, but substantially higher wealth in the SCF at the top of the distribution. Both surveys show an increase in wealth inequality between 1998 and 2016, first mostly due to increased wealth at the top, and, after 2012, due to an increase in the share of households with very little wealth as well. Both surveys agree that wealth inequality by education and race, already substantial in 1998, increased further by 2016.

scholarly journals Burden of cirrhosis on older Americans and their families: Analysis of the health and retirement study

Hepatology ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 55 (1) ◽  
pp. 184-191 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mina O. Rakoski ◽  
Ryan J. McCammon ◽  
John D. Piette ◽  
Theodore J. Iwashyna ◽  
Jorge A. Marrero ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health And Retirement Study ◽  
Older Americans ◽  
Retirement Study

scholarly journals Use of Complementary Medicine in Older Americans: Results From the Health and Retirement Study

2005 ◽  
Vol 45 (4) ◽  
pp. 516-524 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jose Ness ◽  
Dominic J. Cirillo ◽  
David R. Weir ◽  
Nicole L. Nisly ◽  
Robert B. Wallace
Keyword(s):  
Complementary Medicine ◽  
Health And Retirement Study ◽  
Older Americans ◽  
Retirement Study

scholarly journals Response Error in Reporting Dental Coverage by Older Americans in the Health and Retirement Study

2014 ◽  
Vol 51 ◽  
pp. 004695801456132
Author(s):  
John F. Moeller ◽  
Richard J. Manski ◽  
Nancy A. Mathiowetz ◽  
Nancy Campbell ◽  
John V. Pepper
Keyword(s):  
Health And Retirement Study ◽  
Response Error ◽  
Older Americans ◽  
Retirement Study ◽  
Dental Coverage

Optimism, pessimism and health biomarkers in older couples

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Reout Arbel ◽  
Dikla Segel-Karaps
Keyword(s):  
Health Outcomes ◽  
Multilevel Modeling ◽  
Biological Markers ◽  
Chronic Conditions ◽  
Marital Relationship ◽  
Summary Score ◽  
Health And Retirement Study ◽  
Older Couples ◽  
Older Adulthood ◽  
Retirement Study

Objective: Studies have demonstrated the importance of optimism to various health outcomes. However, fewer studies have focused on biological markers, and none have examined whether marital partners levels of optimism and pessimism affect each other's biological markers. Thus, our objectives were to examine whether one's partners optimism and pessimism affect own biological markers. Methods: Three waves of the Health and Retirement Study collected in 2006, 2010 and 2014 were used to test own and partner’s effect on CRP, HDL and Hba1c. Actor-Partner models were used to examine the contribution of partner’s optimism and pessimism on health. Multilevel modeling (MLM) was used to adjust for the interdependence of individuals within dyads. In a series of nine models we tested the separate contribution of pessimism and optimism to each biomarker, within each wave. All models were adjusted for respondent's age, sex and a summary score of respondent's doctor-diagnosed chronic conditions. Results: Partners’ pessimism ad optimism levels were moderately associated. Own and partner’s pessimism, but not optimism, showed significant associations with s partners’ health biomarkers levels. However, effects were not robust and occured primarily at the first assessment waves, when partners were in their early 60s. Conclusion: While optimism seems to have no effect, own and partner's pessimism affects biological markers. Interventions aimed at facilitating healthier life in older adulthood could aim at decreasing pessimism and taking a dyadic approach addressing both partners in a marital relationship.

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