The Hispanic Established Populations for the Epidemiologic Study of the Elderly (EPESE) provides data on risk factors for mortality and morbidity in older Mexican Americans in order to contrast how these factors operate differently than in non-Hispanic Whites, African Americans and other major ethnic groups.
This Wave 10 dataset comprises the ninth follow up of the baseline HEPESE, 1993-1994: [Arizona, California, Colorado, New Mexico, and Texas] (ICPSR 2851). The baseline Hispanic EPESE collected data on a representative sample of community-dwelling Mexican Americans, aged 65 years and older, residing in the five Southwestern states of Arizona, California, Colorado, New Mexico and Texas.
The public-use data covers demographic characteristics (age, sex, type of Hispanic ethnicity, income, education, marital status, number of children, employment, and religion), height, weight, social and physical functioning, chronic conditions, related health problems, health behaviors, self-reported use of dental, hospital and nursing home services, and depression. Subsequent follow-ups allow examination of the predictors of mortality, changes in health outcomes, institutionalization and changes in living arrangements, as well as changes in life situations and quality of life.
This Wave was conducted over 2020 and 2021 and consists of two components, a pre-COVID in-person component and a post-COVID telephone component to the informant only. The study is funded by the National Institute on Aging, part of the National Institutes of Health.