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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 |
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