Social vulnerability and aging of elderly people in the United States

• Hoofdauteurs: Ana Lucia Abeliansky (Auteur), Devin Erel (Auteur), Holger Strulik (Auteur)
• Formaat: Boek
• Gepubliceerd in: Elsevier, 2021-12-01T00:00:00Z.
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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...