Envejeciendo desigualmente en América Latina

Esta investigacion estudia el bienestar de los adultos mayores desde una perspectiva multidimensional en 18 paıses de America Latina. Para ello se estima un ındice de envejecimiento activo para cada individuo y se analiza su distribucion en cada paıs.
Esta estrategia permite medir la desigualdad en la calidad del envejecimiento, ası
como tambien permite considerar diferentes juicios de valor en la evaluacion global de la calidad de vida durante el envejecimiento. De esto modo, se puede dar luces sobre las discrepancias en la calidad del envejecimiento dentro de los paıses y entre paıses. Tambien se analizan los factores asociados al grado de desigualdad en la calidad del envejecimiento a partir de regresiones de funciones de influencia (RIF regressions) y se encuentra que una mayor proporcion de poblaci´on adulta mayor con educacion secundaria o con acceso a infraestructura y servicios publicos reduce los niveles de desigualdad en la calidad del envejecimiento.

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This paper studies active ageing and its distribution among older adults in a sample of 18 Latin American countries. For this purpose, a multidimensional index of active ageing is estimated for each individual, as well as its distribution in each country.
This strategy makes it possible to measure inequalities in the ageing process, and also to consider different value judgements in the overall assessment of quality of life during ageing. Thus, the study sheds light on discrepancies in the quality of ageing within and between countries. Furthermore, individual factors associated with the degree of inequality in active ageing are analysed by means of regressions using Gini re-centred influence functions. A higher proportion of people with secondary education and better access to water and sewerage services is found to be associated with reduced inequality in active ageing. Country-level variables — such as health expenditure, pension coverage, access to health care and the poverty rate among older people — are key in explaining between-country differences in active ageing.