Healthy Longevity in China

"The research in this book captures the highlight of a decade of effort on CLHLS study and represents an important milestone in our emerging understanding of how individuals can endeavor to live a long, healthy life and how societies can help them do so. We still have only a partial understanding of the determinants of healthy longevity, but we have a considerably better understanding than we had a decade ago. Moreover, we can look forward to prospects for a deeper understanding based in significant measure on the further analysis of data from the ongoing CLHLS endeavor." -- James W. Vaupel, Director of Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research and Professor of Duke University "The CLHLS casts valuable light on important features of the aging process in the world's largest country. This volume will serve as a basic reference work both for Chinese studies and for comparative analyses." -- Samuel Preston, Frederick Warren Professor of Demography, University of Pennsylvania "The CLHLS is a fantastic enterprise which started 10 years ago and which will leave a benchmark of the social, economic, and familial situation of the Chinese elderly at the time when they comprised 7% of the whole population and when China entered a new period of accelerated aging. From now on population aging in China and its social consequences, as well as individual lengthening of life and its health consequences will be carefully assessed in reference to the CLHLS. We dream to have such studies for the other large countries on the point of also experiencing similar demographic changes" -- Jean-Marie Robine, Research Director at the French National Institute of Health and Medical Research and Professor of University of Montpellier

• Introduction: Aging and Aged Dependency in China.- Introduction: Aging and Aged Dependency in China.- CLHLS and its Data Quality Assessment.- to the Chinese Longitudinal Healthy Longevity Survey (CLHLS).- General Data Quality Assessment of the CLHLS.- Reliability of Age Reporting Among the Chinese Oldest-Old in the CLHLS Datasets.- Age Reporting in the CLHLS: A Re-assessment.- Assessment of Reliability of Mortality and Morbidity in the 1998–2002 CLHLS Waves.- The Effects of Demographic and Socioeconomic Factors.- The Effects of Sociodemographic Factors on the Hazard of Dying Among Chinese Oldest Old.- When I’m 104: The Determinants of Healthy Longevity Among the Oldest-Old in China.- Association of Education with the Longevity of the Chinese Elderly.- Analysis of Health and Longevity in the Oldest-Old Population—A Health Capital Approach.- The More Engagement, the Better? A Study of Mortality of the Oldest Old in China.- Living Arrangements and Elderly Care.- Living Arrangements and Psychological Disposition of the Oldest Old Population in China.- Health and Living Arrangement Transitions among China’s Oldest-old.- Intergenerational Support and Self-rated Health of the Elderly in Rural China: An Investigation in Chaohu, Anhui Province.- The Effects of Adult Children’s Caregiving onthe Health Status of Their Elderly Parents: Protection or Selection?.- The Challenge to Healthy Longevity: Inequality in Health Care and Mortality in China.- Subjective Wellbeing and Disability.- Successful Ageing of the Oldest- Old in China.- Impairments and Disability in the Chinese and American Oldest-Old Population.- Tooth Loss Among the Elderly in China.- Psychological Resources for Well-Being Among Octogenarians, Nonagenarians, and Centenarians: Differential Effects of Age andSelective Mortality.- An Exploration of the Subjective Well-Being of the Chinese Oldest-Old.- Social Support and Self-Reported Quality of Life China’s Oldest Old.- Mortality Predictability of Self-Rated Health Among the Chinese Oldest Old: A Time-Varying Covariate Analysis.- Gender Differences in the Effects of Self-rated Health Status on Mortality Among the Oldest Old in China.- Epilogue: Future Agenda.