As the nation's largest Latino group, the Mexican-origin population will play a major role as America grows older: their situation is vital to understanding our aging, diverse society as national health care policy comes into a new era of analysis and revision.

Preface and Acknowledgement.-About the Authors .-Forewords1. Introduction.-Section 1- Latino Aging: Risks of Disability and Chronic Illness.- 2. Overview .-3. Does the "Healthy Immigrant Effect" Extend to Cognitive Aging?.-4. Lifetime Socioeconomic Position and Functional Decline in Older Mexican Americans: Results from the Sacramento Area Latino Study on Aging.-5. Cultural Differences in the Effects of Disability on Mental Health in Mexican Couples from the MHAS and MA Couples from the H-EPESE.-6.Disability: Issues of Immigration, Economics, and Family .-7. Overview.-8. A Tale of Three Paradoxes: The Weak Socioeconomic Gradients in Health among Latino Immigrants and their Relation to the Latino Health Paradox and Negative Acculturation.-9. On the Need for Prospective Studies on Aging and Health of the Hispanic Population in .-10. Sociocultural Status and Burden of Disability in Aging Mexican Americans.-11. Contextualizing the Burden of Chronic Disease: Diabetes, Mortality and Disability in Older Mexicans.-12. Access to Vaccines for Latin American and Caribbean Older Adults with Disability .-13. Diabetes and Employment Productivity: The Effect of Duration and Management among Mexican Americans.- Section 3. Caregiving and Long-term Care of Older Latinos: Formal and Informal Care Arrangements .-14. Overview15. Latinos "Aging in Place": Issues and Potential Solutions.-16. Separate and Unequal Access and Quality of Care in Nursing Homes: Transformation of the Long Term Care Industry and Implications of the Research Program for Aging Latinos/-17. Latino and Non-Latino Elderly in Los Angeles County: A Pilot Study of Demographic Trends for Disability and Long-Term Care.-18. Long-Term Care Policy and Older Latinos.-19. Estimating the Demand forLong-term Care among Aging in Mexican-Americans: Cultural Preferences versus Economic Realities.-20. Mexican-American Families and Dementia: An Exploration of "Work" in Response to Dementia-Related Aggressive Behavior.-21. Caring for the Elderly: A Bi-national Task .-22. Extending Medicare to Mexico: Impact on Mexican-Born Beneficiaries/-23. The Evolving Nexus of Policy, Longevity and Diversity: Agenda Setting for Latino Health and Aging.24. Afterword: Human Security in Health: The Case of the Mexico-U.S. Border.