MPIDR Working Paper

Time-to-death patterns in markers of age and dependency

Riffe, T., Chung, P. H., Spijker, J. J. A., MacInnes, J.
MPIDR Working Paper WP-2015-003, 31 pages.
Rostock, Max-Planck-Institut für demografische Forschung (Juli 2015)
Please refer to the peer-reviewed version: Riffe, T., Chung, P. H., Spijker, J., & MacInnes, J. (2016). Time-to-death patterns in markers of age and dependency. Vienna Yearbook of Population Research, 14, 229-254.
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Abstract

We aim to determine the extent to which variables commonly used to describe health, wellbeing, and disability in old-age vary primarily as a function of years lived (chronological age), years left (thanatological age), or as a function of both. We analyze data from the US Health and Retirement Study to estimate chronological age and time-to-death patterns in 78 such variables. We describe results from the birth cohort born 1915-1919 in the final 12 years of life. Our results show that most markers used to study well-being in old-age vary along both the age and time-to-death dimensions, but some markers are exclusively a function of either time to death or chronological age, and others display different patterns between the sexes.

Schlagwörter: Vereinigte Staaten, age, demographic accounting, disability, methodology, morbidity, mortality
Das Max-Planck-Institut für demografische Forschung (MPIDR) in Rostock ist eines der international führenden Zentren für Bevölkerungswissenschaft. Es gehört zur Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, einer der weltweit renommiertesten Forschungsgemeinschaften.