Session 45: Health and health inequalities at older ages

Friday, June 23 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM Room 8

1.	Functional disability and diabetes among Latin American and Caribbean elders  •  Flavia Andrade, University of Wisconsin at Madison

2.	Health inequalities tracking into old age: examples and prospects from The English Longitudinal Study Of Ageing (ELSA)  •  Elizabeth Breeze, University College London; Mary Pierce, University College London; James Nazroo, University College London; Michael Marmot, University College London

3.	Do elderly people feel sad and depressed? Mental health of ageing people. A cross-country comparison based on SHARE  •  Isabella Buber-Ennser, Vienna Institute of Demography

4.	Gender differences in the onset of disease at old age: the effects of socio-economic and behavioural factors. Results from the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing  •  Edlira Gjonca, University College London; Arjan Gjonca, London School of Economics

5.	Mortality in old age: an investigation in the MRC Cognitive Function and Ageing Study (MRC CFAS)  •  Cherie McCracken, Royal Liverpool University Hospital

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