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SUBMITTER: Yahirun JJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5600815 | biostudies-literature | 2017 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Yahirun Jenjira J JJ Sheehan Connor M CM Hayward Mark D MD
Social science & medicine (1982) 20170320
The well-being of older adults is frequently tied to support from their adult children. Here, we assess whether the education of adult offspring is associated with changes to older parents' short- and long-term health in Mexico, a rapidly aging context with historically limited institutional support for the elderly. Educational expansion over the past half century, however, provides older adults with greater resources to rely on via the education of their children. Using longitudinal data from t ...[more]