Older Mexicans and Latinos in the United States (PDF)

Jacqueline L. Angel, Ph.D. is the Wilbur J. Cohen Professor of Health and Social Policy and Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin and a faculty affiliate at the PRC/Center on Aging and Population Sciences and Texas Aging and Longevity Center, USA. Dr. Angel's research examines health and retirement issues, with a focus on Latino and Mexican aging, family, immigration processes, and community-based long-term care systems. She is a Principal Investigator (PI, UT Austin) of the NIH/NIA with collaborators on the H-EPESE (UTMB, UTHSCSA), the first large-scale investigation of the longitudinal health and well being of older Mexican Americans in the Southwestern United States; Bi-national study of living arrangement trajectories and dementia care, Texas Resource Center for Minority Aging Research, and since 2005 Principal Investigator of the Conference Series on Aging in the Americas (CAA). Dr. Angel is author/coauthor/co-editor of 80 journal articles, 30 book chapters, and 12 books. Dr. Angel is a Fellow of the Behavioral and Social Sciences section of The Gerontological Society of America (GSA) and a Senior Fellow at the Sealy Center on Aging, University of Texas Medical School Galveston.

Flavia Andrade, PhD is an Associate Professor at the School of Social Work at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA. She also holds appointments in the departments of Sociology and Kinesiology and Community Health. She is also affiliated with the Center for Latin America and Caribbean Studies, The Lemann Center for Brazilian Studies and Center for Global Studies, and Women and Gender in Global Perspectives Program. She is a fellow of the Gerontological Society of America serves on the CAA Advisory Group. Dr. Andrade research focuses on health inequalities in the context of global demographic, social, and epidemiological changes. Her work investigates social and economic factors that contribute to differences inhealth across