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The findings of this study partly support the healthy immigrant effect seen in the Hispanic population. Older Mexican-born men who had immigrated to the United States were less likely to report ADL disability. Mexican-born men were less disabled than their U.S.-born counterparts, and Mexican-born women were more likely to report disability than Mexican-born men.
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The motivation to migrate for foreign-born Mexican-American men has been to look for jobs, whereas women have more often followed their spouses and families regardless of their health status or motivational factors
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This page is a summary of: Sex, Nativity, and Disability in Older Mexican Americans, Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, November 2015, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1111/jgs.13827.
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