# HISPANIC HEALTH AND AGING, SAN LUIS VALLEY, CO

> **NIH NIH R01** · UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO DENVER · 1993 · $438,445

## Abstract

This proposal seeks to understand the relationship between disease
occurrence, and psychosocial socioeconomic, nutritional and other risk
factors on the development of functional impairment: disability, health
care use, and mortality in a unique cohort of rural elderly Hispanic and
non-Hispanic white (NHW) subjects in southern Colorado.  We propose to
expand a previously identified representative cohort of elderly Hispanic
and NHW persons who live in two rural counties, and to determine the
prevalence and subsequent incidence of physical and mental disability and
those disease and psychosocial characteristics that may predict them.  We
will test several descriptive hypotheses: 1) -older Hispanics will have a
greater prevalence of all measures of functional limitation and cognitive
impairment than NHWs; 2) poorer overall nutrition will lead to greater
disability; 3) health care utilization will be lower among Hispanics than
NHWs at each age; 4) the incidence of functional limitation, disability,
and institutionalization will be higher among Hispanics than NHWs.  We
will also test several analytic hypotheses that examine the role of
specific mediating factors such as acculturation, social networks and
social support, and nutrition.

These data will help alleviate the paucity of descriptive and analytic
information on elderly Hispanics in the southwestern U.S. This regional
Hispanic population is heterogeneous, and there are virtually no data on
those Hispanics who self-identify as "other Hispanic", rather than the
more urban and border-related 'Mexican-American" subgroup.  This proposal
will provide data for health policy and services planning, and improve
the understanding of disease and disability relationships in the rural
Hispanic elderly.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 3122902
- **Project number:** 5R01AG010940-02
- **Recipient organization:** UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO DENVER
- **SAM.gov UEI:** MW8JHK6ZYEX8
- **Principal Investigator:** RICHARD F HAMMAN
- **Activity code:** R01 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 1993
- **Award amount:** $438,445
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 1992-08-01 → 1997-06-30

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/3122902

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 3122902, HISPANIC HEALTH AND AGING, SAN LUIS VALLEY, CO (5R01AG010940-02). Retrieved via MORVS 2026-10-25 from https://api.morvs.ai/grant/nih/3122902. Licensed CC0.

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