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Unmet Needs for Personal Assistance among Older Adults in Mexico: 2001–2015

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Rapid aging and longer lives pose many health and social care policy challenges to countries in Latin America, such as Mexico. By 2050, 21.5% of the Mexican population will be 60 years or older, up from 10% in 2015 (González, 2015). Data from the SAGE study conducted between 2007 and 2010 found that life expectancy at age 50 was 32 years for women and 29 for men (Chirinda & Chen, 2017). Of these years, women could expect to live ten years and men six years with a severe disability (Chirinda & Chen, 2017).

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Acknowledgments

We would like to thank Jeanna Campbell for her assistance in a previous version of this chapter. We also would like to thank the comments received during the 2019 INGER-ICAA meeting in Mexico City.

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Andrade, F., López Ortega, M. (2021). Unmet Needs for Personal Assistance among Older Adults in Mexico: 2001–2015. In: Angel, J.L., López Ortega, M., Gutierrez Robledo, L.M. (eds) Understanding the Context of Cognitive Aging. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-70119-2_11

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