Despite the presence of Medicare, out-of-pocket medical spending is a large expenditure risk facing the elderly. While … women live longer than men, elderly women incur higher out-of-pocket medical spending than men at each age. In this paper …

subjective health status and mental health, while also reducing outpatient care utilization. I explore a wide range of health …

countries face. Elderly people who are left behind may experience a decrease in welfare when their children migrate. This paper … investigates the effect of migration on various dimensions of elderly health using unique data from Moldova, which has one of the … to leisure and sleep which may have further beneficial effects. These positive effects seem to compensate the elderly for …

, unhealthy behaviors decrease, and medical care use declines. We use data on elderly mortality rates and data from the Medicare …A number of studies report that U.S. state mortality rates, particularly for the elderly, decline during economic … Current Beneficiary Survey from a time period that encompasses the start of the Great Recession. We find that elderly …

reported by patients whose care is funded by the National Health Service in areas other than clinical quality. We estimate a …