Topic: Disability and Persistent Lack of Care Among Older Adults in China， the United States, England, and the European Union
Abstract: Global estimates for disability are on the rise amid rapid population aging. Assistance with daily living is essential for people who suffer from disability Using harmonized data in the past decade on community-dwelling participants aged 50+from China, the United States, England. and the European Union, our estimates consistently showed that, across all 31 countries in vastly different stages of development at least one fifth of demented individuals re porting difficulty with any basic or instrumental activities of daily living (ADL/IADL) received no care for their functional limitations. Substantial dis parities were also identified. In particular, the less educated had significantly higher prevalence of reporting ADL/IADL difficulty with no formal care received. People living alone had higher prevalence of reporting ADL/IADL difficulty with no informal care received. Overall. Lack of any care did not improve over time, regardless of the stages of development. Our estimates high light the urgency to ensure basic provision of care for people suffering from disabilities, especially among those who are less educated or live alone.
Keynote speaker：Dr CHEN Xi
Professor Chen is an Associate Professor of Global Health Policy and Economics at Yale University and an Adjunct Professor at the Yale Institute for Social Policy, the Yale Institute on Aging, the Yale Institute for Global Health, the U.S. Federal Center for Alzheimer's Research, the Claude D. Pepper Center on Aging in America, the Yale Center on Climate Change and Health, the Macmillan Center, and the Yale-China Institute. He is also a consultant to the United Nations, a research fellow at the IZA Institute for the Study of Labor Economics, head of the Global Labor Organization's Environment and Human Capital Research Group, a senior fellow at Cornell University's Center on Health Economics and Inequality, and an external reviewer for the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, and a number of United Nations agencies. His research combines economic causal inference, machine science and deep learning, traditional epidemiological methods, and focuses on public policy in the areas of population ageing, total life-cycle health, and quality of life through in-depth analysis of big data from Chinese, American and European healthcare systems and data from several social tracking surveys. These studies were awarded the American Agricultural and Applied Economics Association Distinguished Doctoral Dissertation Award, the National Institutes of Health Claude Pepper Scholar Award, the National Institute on Aging Butler-Williams Scholar, the George Warren Award for Applied Economic Research, and the Kuznets Award in Population Economics. He is an Assistant Professor in the School of Economics at the University of Nottingham Ningbo. he received his PhD from the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2018. His research interests are in applied microeconomics, including labour economics, health economics and the Chinese economy. His research has been published in leading international journals such as the Journal of Labor Economics and the Journal of Comparative Economics.
Time: 16 March 2023 (Thursday) 21:00-22:30 (Beijing time) 13:00-14:30 (UK time)