The Oldest Old Book

	Contributors
I	Introduction
1	Introducing the oldest old	3
II	The Demographic Perspective
2	A demographic portrait of America's oldest old	17
3	Cohort succession and the future of the oldest old	50
4	The paradox of the oldest old in the United States: An international comparison	58
III	Problems in Studying the Oldest Old
5	Conceptual issues in the design and analysis of longitudinal surveys of the health and functioning of the oldest old	89
6	Observations on interview surveys of the oldest old	123
7	Collecting data about the oldest old: Problems and procedures	135
8	Mortality and life expectancy changes among the oldest old	157
9	Causes of death among the oldest old	183
IV	The Dynamics of Becoming the Oldest Old
10	Disability and mortality among the oldest old: Implications for current and future health and long-term-care service needs	199
11	The oldest old and the use of institutional long-term care from an international perspective	251
12	Epidemiology of disability in the oldest old	268
13	The impact of Alzheimer's disease in the United States population
V	A Social Portrait of the Oldest Old
14	The social environment of the very old	303
15	The black oldest old: Health, functioning, and informal support	321
16	The robust oldest old: Optimistic perspectives for increasing healthy life expectancy	341
17	Making it last: Economic resources of the oldest old	359
VI	Social and Medical Policy Toward the Oldest Old
18	Sharing increasing costs on declining income: The visible dilemma of the invisible aged	381
19	The oldest old and "intergenerational equity"	394
	Author Index	419
	Subject Index	429