Well-being and family support among elderly rural Mexicans in the context of migration to the United States.
OBJECTIVE
To explore perceptions of well-being, family support, and economic resources in relation to level of contact with migration to the U.S. among a sample of elderly males from rural Mexico.


METHODS
The snowballing technique was used to obtain a sample of 372 participants. Four groups were created according to the level of contact with migration among older adults and their children.


RESULTS
Greater level of contact with migration was associated with a higher likelihood that an older adult was literate, married or living with someone, self-employed, and retired or pensioned. In addition, greater level of contact with migration to the U.S. was associated with a higher level of perceived well-being, family support, and economic security.


CONCLUSIONS
Elderly, rural Mexican men with a greater degree of contact with migration to the U.S. seem to have more security and well-being in their old age.
Gonzalez Vazquez
Tonatiuh
T
National Institute of Public Health, Mexico.
Bonilla Fernandez
Pastor
P
Jauregui Ortiz
Berenice
B
Yamanis
Thespina J
TJ
Salgado de Snyder
V Nelly
VN
D000368:Aged; D004641:Emigration and Immigration; D005195:Family Relations / Q000208:ethnology; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008800:Mexico; D012424:Rural Population; D012944:Social Support; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014171:Transients and Migrants; D014481:United States