Laboratory

Population Health

At a Glance Projects Publications Team

Project

The Onset and Progression of Disability in Older Adults

Kieron Barclay, Carlos Diaz-Venegas, Christian Dudel; in Collaboration with Timothy A. Reistetter, Rebeca Wong, Alejandra Michaels-Obregon, Ickpyo Hong (all: The University of Texas System, The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, USA), Sergio de la Vega (Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, México City, Mexico), Ching-Yi Wang (Chung Shan Medical University, Taichung City, Taiwan), Maria Andrée López Gómez (Harvard University, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, USA), Fernando Benavides (Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona, Spain)

Differences in how disability affects the elderly can be observed across countries. The project investigates socioeconomic and gender differences in disability progression, as well as behavioral influences on disability.  Detailed Description

Publications

Höhn, A.; McGurnaghan , S. J.; Caparrotta, T. M.; Jeyam , A.; O'Reilly, J. E.; Blackbourn, L. A. K.; Hatam, S.; Dudel, C.; Seaman, R. J.; Mellor, J.; Sattar, N.; McCrimmon, R. J.; Kennon, B.; Petrie, J. R.; Wild, S.; McKeigue, P. M.; Colhoun, H. M.:

Large socioeconomic gap in period life expectancy and life years spent with complications of diabetes in the Scottish population with type 1 diabetes, 2013–2018

PLoS One 17:8, e0271110–e0271110. (2022)    

Díaz-Venegas, C.; Reistetter, T. A.; Wong, R.:

Differences in the progression of disability: a U.S.-Mexico comparison

Journals of Gerontology, Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences 73:5, 913–922. (2018)    

Doblhammer, G.; Peters, S.; Rizzuto, D.; Welmer, A.:

The effect of current family situation on slow walking speed at old age

In: A demographic perspective on gender, family and health in Europe, 283–303. Cham: Springer Open. (2018)