This book presents new insights into the consequences of the impending growth in and impact of
the older segment of Latino aging adults across distinctive regions of the Americas. It uses a
comparative research framework to further understanding of current issues in health and aging
in the transnational context of the health and migratory experiences of the U.S.- Mexican
population. It provides an important contribution to the interdisciplinary investigation of
chronic diseases and functional impairments social care and medical services care-giving and
intervention development and neighborhood factors supporting optimal aging using new
conceptual and methodological approaches (inter-group comparisons). Specifically the chapters
employ different methodologies that investigate trends in aging health and services related to
immigration processes family and household structure macroeconomic changes in the quality of
community life and focus on the new realities of aging in Latino families in local
communities. The book focuses on measurement data-quality issues new conceptual modeling
techniques and longitudinal survey capabilities and suggests needed areas of new research. As
such it is of interest to researchers and policy makers in a wide range of disciplines from
social and behavioral sciences to economics gerontology geriatrics and public health.
