Longitudinal data from a 15-year national survey of adults are used to test the double
jeopardy to health hypothesis as well as the alternative hypotheses that aging levels ethnic …

Previous health research on the double jeopardy of being Black and old is largely based
upon subjective assessments of health. This article discusses the measurement of health …

Objectives. Previous research on differences between Black and White older adults has
produced inconsistent results on whether a gap in disability exists and whether it persists …

Considerable research on minority health has examined whether members of a minority
group experience more rapid health declines than the White majority when both groups …

Background The weathering hypothesis views the elevated rates of illness, disability, and
mortality seen among Black Americans as a physiological response to the structural barriers …

This study examines whether the racial disparity in functional health grows unabated over
the adult life course–the cumulative disadvantage hypothesis–or shrinks among the oldest …

Six waves of observations spanning a decade on a panel of 566 black and 5,196 non-Black
survivors were utilized to examine social and racial differences in age-related changes in …

Objectives. Racial and socioeconomic disparities in health have become a prominent
feature of American society, though our understanding of the processes leading to such …

Racial and ethnic differences in the age patterns of incidence and prevalence of chronic
morbidity and disability are important because they provide data on (1) biological …

Examining the Black/White disability gap among older adults, this study focuses on the role
of timing in racial inequality over time. Using the Duke Established Populations for …