Social vulnerability and aging of elderly people in the United States

• मुख्य लेखकों: Ana Lucia Abeliansky (लेखक), Devin Erel (लेखक), Holger Strulik (लेखक)
• स्वरूप: पुस्तक
• प्रकाशित: Elsevier, 2021-12-01T00:00:00Z.
• विषय: article
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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...