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Special Publications: Profiles of Older People

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Report Type Reports and Testimonies
Report Date Jan. 1, 1981
Report No. 117094
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Summary:

Three separate studies were made on the quality of life of people 65 years old and older not residing in institutions. The elderly persons sampled lived in Cleveland, Ohio; Lane County, Oregon; and the Gateway Health district in northeastern Kentucky. During a personal interview, the elderly persons replied to 101 questions about their well-being in five areas of functioning: social, economic, mental, physical, and activities of daily living. Statistics were derived on the effects that aid has on older people, the current costs of helping older people, the long range benefits of helping the elderly, comparative costs of home services and institutionalization, living arrangements of the impaired, rural and urban comparisons, income sources of the elderly, sources of help for the elderly, and older people in public housing.

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