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The Collective Spirit of Aging Across CulturesThe Effects of Minority and Immigration Status on Elderly Health: A Community Social Capital Perspective

The Collective Spirit of Aging Across Cultures: The Effects of Minority and Immigration Status on... [Health disparity across ethnic and immigrant groups are well recognized. However, there is a lack of systematic understanding about health disparity among older adults particularly given the growing number and size of minority and/or immigrant elders in the United States. The chapter relies on published studies, relevant monographs, government reports and Census data; it explores possible ways in which minority and immigration status jointly or independently affects elderly health. The chapter then introduces the community social capital as a theoretical framework to understand elderly health disparity. In essence, it argues the magnitude of structural racism in the life of minority and immigrant older adults; and it discusses the role that community social capital might play to moderate the negative effects of social-economic disparity, community segregation, social discrimination, and other factors contributable to health outcomes.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

The Collective Spirit of Aging Across CulturesThe Effects of Minority and Immigration Status on Elderly Health: A Community Social Capital Perspective

Part of the International Perspectives on Aging Book Series (volume 9)
Editors: Vakalahi, Halaevalu F.Ofahengaue; Simpson, Gaynell M.; Giunta, Nancy
Xu, Qingwen; Du, Yan
The Collective Spirit of Aging Across Cultures — Jan 29, 2014
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Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Copyright
© Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2014
ISBN
978-94-017-8593-8
Pages
111 –132
DOI
10.1007/978-94-017-8594-5_7
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Abstract

[Health disparity across ethnic and immigrant groups are well recognized. However, there is a lack of systematic understanding about health disparity among older adults particularly given the growing number and size of minority and/or immigrant elders in the United States. The chapter relies on published studies, relevant monographs, government reports and Census data; it explores possible ways in which minority and immigration status jointly or independently affects elderly health. The chapter then introduces the community social capital as a theoretical framework to understand elderly health disparity. In essence, it argues the magnitude of structural racism in the life of minority and immigrant older adults; and it discusses the role that community social capital might play to moderate the negative effects of social-economic disparity, community segregation, social discrimination, and other factors contributable to health outcomes.]

Published: Jan 29, 2014

Keywords: Social Capital; Health Disparity; Immigrant Group; Immigration Status; Residential Segregation

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