About the Book
Preface: James W. Vaupel, - Acknowledgement, - Chapter 1: Introduction: Aging and Aged Dependency in China: Dudley L. Poston, Jr. and Zeng Yi, - Part I: CLHLS and Its Data Quality Assessment: Dudley L. Poston, Jr., - Chapter 2: Introduction to the Chinese Longitudinal Healthy Longevity Survey (CLHLS): Zeng Yi, - Chapter 3: General Data Quality Assessment of the CLHLS: Danan Gu, - Chapter 4: Reliability of Age Reporting among the Chinese Oldest-old in the CLHLS Datasets: Zeng Yi and Danan Gu, - Chapter 5: Age Reporting in the CLHLSL A Re-assessment: Heather Booth and Zhongwei Zhao, - Chapter 6: Assessment of Reliability of mortality and Morbidity in the 1998-2002 CLHLS Waves: Danan Gu and Matthew E. Dupre, - Part II: The Effects of demographic and Socioeconomic Factors: Danan Gu, - Chapter 7: The Effects of Sociodemographic Factors on the Hazard of Dying Among Chinese Oldest Old: Dudley L. Poston, Jr. and Hosik Min, - Chapter 8: When I'm 104: The Determinants of Healthy Longevity among the Oldest-old in China: Dennis A. Ahlburg, Eric Jensen, and Ruyan Liao, - Chapter 9: Association of Education with the Longevity of the Chinese Elderly: Jianming Li, - Chapter 10: Analysis of Health and Longevity in the Oldest-Old Population - A Health Capital Approach: Zhong Zhao, - Chapter 11: The More Engagement, the Better? A Study of Mortality of the Oldest Old in China: Rongjun Sun and Yuzhi Liu, - Part III: Living Arrangements and Elderly Care: Zeng Yi: Chapter 12: living Arrangements and Psychological Disposition of the Oldest Old Population in China: Zheng Wu and Christoph M. Schimmele, - Chapter13: Health and Living Arrangement Transitions among China's Oldest-old: Zachary Zimmer, - Chapter 14: Intergenerational Support and Self-rated Health of the Elderly in Rural China: An Investigation in Chaochu, Anhui Province: Lu Song et al, - Chapter 15: The Effects of Adult Children's Caregiving on the Health Status of Their Parents: Protection or Selection?: ZhenZhang, - Chapter 16: The Challenge to Healthy Longevity Inequality in Health Care and Mortality in China: Zhongwie Zhao, - Part IV: Subjective Wellbeing and Disability: Denese Ashbaugh Vlosky: Chapter 17: Successful Ageing of the Oldest-Old in China: Peng Du, - Chapter 18: Impairments and Disability in the Chinese and American Oldest-Old Population: William P. Moran, Sihan LV, and G. John Chen, - Chapter 19: Tooth Loss among the Elderly in China: Yun Zhou and ZhenZhen Zheng, - Chapter 20: Psychological Resources for Well-Being Among Octogenarians, Nonagenarians, and Centenarians: Differential Effects of Age and Selective Mortality: Jacqui Smith, Denis Gerstorf and Qiang Li, - Chapter 21: An Exploration of the Subjective Well-Being of the Chinese Oldest-Old: Deming Li, Tianyong Chen, and Zhengyun Wu, - Chapter 22: Social Support and Self-Reported Quality of Life: China's Oldest-old: Min Zhou and Zhenchao Qian, - Chapter 23: Mortality Predictability of Seld-Rated Health among the Chinese Oldest Old: A Time-Varying Covariate Analysis: Qianh Li and Yuzhi Liu, - Chapter 24: Gender Differences in the Effects of Self-rated Health Status on Mortality among the Oldest-old in China: Jiajian Chen and Zheng Wu, - Chapter 25: Epil