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473 - Section on Aging and the Life Course Paper Session. Health and the Life Course
Mon, August 18, 4:30 to 6:10pm, TBASession Submission Type: Paper Session
Abstract
This session will focus on factors that influence health across the life course, including early-life exposures, the timing of events in the transition to adulthood, and planning for end of life. Papers employ new data and insights to evaluate long-standing questions in life course research such as cumulative influences on health, variation across age in the predictors of health outcomes, and the ways in which the sequencing of life course events shapes subsequent health outcomes.
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Perceptions of Own and Spouse’s Survival: Do Life Span Projections Affect End-of-Life Health Care Planning? - Deborah Carr, State University of New Jersey-Rutgers; Elizabeth Anne Luth, State University of New Jersey-Rutgers
The Sequencing of a College Degree during the Transition to Adulthood: Implications for Obesity - Richard A. Miech, University of Michigan; Shawn Bauldry, University of Alabama-Birmingham
Why Self-Rated Health Predicts Mortality Less Well at Older Ages - Anna Zajacova, University of Wyoming; Hyeyoung Woo, Portland State University
Long Arm of Parental Education? Early Childhood Influences on Functional Limitations among Older Adults in India - Tirth Raj Bhatta, Case Western Reserve University; Jeffrey Albert, Case Western Reserve University; Jessica A. Kelley-Moore, Case Western Reserve University; Li-Lian Kwok, Case Western Reserve University