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Social vulnerability and aging of elderly people in the United States

We use 7 waves of the Health and Retirement Study and construct a social vulnerability index (SVI) for elderly U.S. Americans (born 1913–1966). We show that the SVI is mildly larger for men than for women and increases in age from above age 60 onwards for both genders. Social vulnerability of men (b...

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Autores principales: Abeliansky, Ana Lucia, Erel, Devin, Strulik, Holger
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8463908/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34604495
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ssmph.2021.100924