What is it about?

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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Why is it important?

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

Perspectives

Future studies should focus on these health disadvantages in older women of Mexican background and U.S.-born Mexican men living in the United States and develop customized health policies and programs to help them have better quality of life in spite of greater disability.

Dr Sanggon Nam
Pfeiffer University

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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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