Bochert, Carlotta (2023) Frailty of Older Migrants in Europe – Gendered Dynamics? Master thesis.
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Abstract
European societies are ageing. It has therefore become an urgent question what can be done to enable ageing in health – both for personal well-being and fiscal sustainability. Ageing migrants are particularly vulnerable in terms of health. This study explores frailty differences between native and immigrant populations in Europe, aged 60+, with special attention paid to the intersection of migration status and gender. It uses 2015 data of almost 50.000 respondents from the SHARE project. In logistic regression, immigrants are shown to be slightly more likely to be frail than natives in their country of residence. In separate models for men and women, the effect of migration is even more pronounced for women. For both men and women, economic factors play a large role in mediating immigrant-native frailty differences. Health behaviours and social capital measures show smaller mediation effects. After controlling for all of these mediators, immigrant-native differences in frailty are no longer statistically significant. The relation of immigrants’ likelihood of frailty to that of their native counterparts varies across different regions of Europe, appearing most disadvantageous for migrants in Northern Europe. These results contribute to the growing empirical literature that finds there to be no lasting “healthy migrant effect” for older migrants in Europe. This study’s findings suggest that older migrants are disproportionately negatively affected by a variety of social determinants of health and thus need to be considered as an important target group for health interventions in the older population.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Master) |
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| Degree programme: | Population Studies |
| Supervisor: | Frentz-Gollnitz, M. |
| Date Deposited: | 12 Dec 2023 14:50 |
| Last Modified: | 12 Dec 2023 14:50 |
| URI: | https://frw.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/4430 |
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