DEMENTIA AND SOCIAL SUPPORT TRAJECTORIES IN THE MEXICAN-ORIGIN POPULATION

Given the future growth of the elderly Mexican-origin population, the need for culturally informed dementia care will inevitably grow in the years ahead. Dementia-related needs of older adults living in the community are multidimensional and based on severity of dementia; yet, there is a lack of inf...

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Published in:Innovation in aging 2017-07, Vol.1 (suppl_1), p.623-624
Main Authors: Rote, S., Angel, J.L., Hill, T., Markides, K.S.
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Language:English
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Summary:Given the future growth of the elderly Mexican-origin population, the need for culturally informed dementia care will inevitably grow in the years ahead. Dementia-related needs of older adults living in the community are multidimensional and based on severity of dementia; yet, there is a lack of information on emotional and instrumental support need as cognitive impairment unfolds for the elderly population in general and for the Mexican-origin population in particular. The current explores different patterns or trajectories of emotional and instrumental support need for 3,050 Mexican Americans aged 65 and older from seven waves of the Hispanic Established Epidemiologic Studies of the Elderly (H-EPESE, 1993/94–2010/11). We identify three distinct classes of social support trajectories: stable high support need, increasing support need, and stable low support need. Mexican American elders with increasing cognitive impairment report increasing emotional and instrumental support need throughout the study waves. Predictions of older Latinos at risk of being left without sound support and consequently high dependency on public resources are discussed.
ISSN:2399-5300
2399-5300
DOI:10.1093/geroni/igx004.2193