This book provides a bi-national portrait of dementia in the rapidly aging Mexican-origin population in Mexico and the United States. It provides a comprehensive overview of critical conceptual and methodological issues in the study of cognitive aging and related mental and physical conditions. The book examines the sources of vulnerability and their consequences for Mexican-origin and for aging in place. By providing a combination of new knowledge, empirical evidence, and fresh approaches of dementia support in later life, this book will contribute to moving the field of Mexican-origin aging and health forward. By focusing on the serious challenges in old-age support for older people with dementia and neurocognitive disorders in two different contexts, this book will deepen academics, researchers, students and young investigators understanding of what is necessary to achieve optional care.
Part I: Concepts, theory and measurement of mental and cognitive health
Section Editor: Kyriakos Markides.
Chapter
1. Cognitive Domains in Low
Literacy Populations: The Experience of the Maracaibo Aging Study.
Chapter
2. The Role of Discrimination on Latinxs Use of Mental Health Services: A
LatCrit and Life-Course Perspective.
Chapter
3. Links between Mental Health
and Physical Health, Their Impact on the Quality of Life of the Elderly, and
Challenges for Public Health.
Chapter
4. Questions and Conundrums: How
Qualitative Methods Can Help Us Understand the Health Needs of the Elderly.-
Part II: Old Diseases and New Plagues.
Chapter
5. Potentially Modifiable
Risk Factors for Dementia in Lower- and Middle-Income Countries.
Chapter
6.
Rural and Urban Differences in Cognitive Healthy Life Expectancies among
Older Adults in Mexico.
Chapter
7. A New Perspective on Redefining and
Preventing Diabetes to Prevent Dementia in High-Risk Populations.
Chapter
8.
Religious Involvement, HealthLocus of Control, and Sleep Disturbance: A Study
of Older Mexican Americans.- Part III: Caregiving and long-term care services
and supports including dementia care.
Chapter
9. Mental Health and Aging in
Mexico and the United States: The New Urban Reality.
Chapter
10. Unmet Needs
for Personal Assistance among Older Adults in Mexico: 2001-2015.
Chapter
11.
Dementia Support among Older Mexican-Americans: Is Adult Day Health Center a
Viable Alternative?.- Part IV: Emerging Issues in Cognitive Aging and Mental
Health.
Chapter
12. Can Brain Health Interventions Reduce Mexicos Dementia
Burden? An Essay.
Chapter
13. Impact of Supplemental Income on Major
Depressive Episodes of Older Adults in Mexico.
Chapter
14. The Macro
Realities of Population Aging: Policy Trends Impacting Aging, Health and
Mental Health in the Americas.
Chapter
15. Gerontology and Geriatrics,
Sustainable Development Goals, and the United Nations.- Part V: Section
Editor: Emma Aguila.
Chapter
16. Framing Challenges of Dementia and Mental
Health Care in Mexican-origin Older Adults in Mexico and the United States:
Consensus Agenda Findings and Recommendations.
Chapter
17. Mind the Gap: A
Scoping Review of Aging and Diabetes in Mexico.
Chapter
18. Profiles of
Social Coping Resources among Latinos: A Latent Latent Class Analysis.
Jacqueline L. Angel investigates informal and formal supports of older people with dementia and related disorders in Mexico and the United States. The work builds on research funded by the National Institute on Aging in 1992 and involves dyadic analyses of dementia caregiving in a large twenty-year cohort study of Mexican Americans in the Southwestern United States with a special focus on immigrant families.
Mariana López Ortega is a part of the academic working groups of two national surveys in Mexico, the latest waves of the Mexican Health and Aging Study, and in the development of the module for adults 60 years and older of the Mexican National Health and Nutrition Survey. This work provides a representative sample of this age group for the first time, with specific questions aimed at investigating specific epidemiologic issues specific to this stage of life. She has also participated in the generation of research and reports with international organizations that are highly relevant in ageing, social support and dementia research.
Luis Miguel Gutierrez Robledo is the founding Director of the National Institute of Geriatrics and Coordinator of the Mexican network for research on aging. He has been involved in research on public health and aging since the early 90s and is an stablished scholar in the field.
