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| Education-specific estimates of life expectancy and age-specific disability in the US elderly population: 1982 to 1991 | | Author(s) | Kenneth G Manton, Eric Stallard, Larry Corder |
| Journal title | Journal of Aging and Health, vol 9, no 4,, November 1997 |
| Pages | pp 419-450 |
| Keywords | Mobility ; Self care capacity ; Death ; Educational status [elderly] ; Older men ; Older women ; Longitudinal surveys ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | This study used mortality data for 1982 to 1991 linked to survey records from the 1982, 1984, and 1989 National Long Term Care Surveys, United States (US), to calculate gender differences over age in mortality and functional status for high and low education subgroups. Men and women with high education maintained better functioning at later ages than did those with low education. The study also found that mortality was higher, after conditioning for disability, in both the male and female low-education than the male and female high-education groups. The size of the education effect on both disability and mortality was large: about 7.6 years difference in female life expectancy at age 65, and about 2 years difference for males. (AKM). |
| Accession Number | CPA-980407228 A |
| Classmark | C4: CA: CW: F:V: BC: BD: 3J: 7T |
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