The Epidemiologic study of the elderly

SECTION 1: INTERDISCIPLINARY CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE EPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDY OF THE ELDERLY: Wallace: Aging and disease: from laboratory to community Fried & Wallace : The complexity of chronic illness in the elderly: from clinic to community Kaplan et al: Risk factors and the study of prevention in the elderly: methodologic issues SECTION II: ISSUES IN SURVEYING OLDER PERSONS: Colsher: Ethical issues in conducting surveys of the elderly Freeman et al: Sampling strategies for studying older persons Herzog & Rodgers: The use of survey methods in research on older Americans Kohout: The pragmatics of field survey work among the elderly Magaziner: The use of proxy respondents in health surveys of the aged SECTION III: IMPORTANT MEASUREMENT THEMES IN THE ELDERLY: Colsher: Epidemiologic studies of cognitive function in the elderly: rationale, methods and findings Guralnik & LaCroix: Assessing physical function in older populations Branch: Epidemiologic methods for the study of health service use by older people Berkman et al: Social networks and social support among the elderly: assessment issues Tweed et al: Psychiatric epidemiology of elderly populations Foley: Epidemiologic research in the nursing home population Taeuber: Types and quality of data available on the elderly in the 1990 census Harris & Kovar: Data sets for research in aging: the national center for health statistics Havlik & Rosenberg: The quality and application of death records of older persons Cartwright: Assessing income and resources of the elderly Colsher: Epidemiologic studies of aging in historically understudied populations Liang & Jay: Cross-cultural research on aging SECTION IV: ANALYTIC ISSUES IN THE EPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDY OF THE ELDERLY: Brock et al: Methodologic issues in a survey of the last days of life Manton & Woodbury: Grade-of-membership analysis in the epidemiology of aging Lemke & Drube: Issues in handling incomplete data in surveys of the elderly Lachenbruch: Utility of logistic regression analysis in epidemiologic studies of the elderly.