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    <title>Oldest old</title>
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  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>Manton, Kenneth G.</namePart>
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  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>Willis, David P.</namePart>
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    <publisher>Oxford University Press</publisher>
    <dateIssued>1992</dateIssued>
    <issuance>monographic</issuance>
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  <tableOfContents>Introducing the oldest old / Richard M. Suzman, Kenneth G. Manton, and David P. Willis -- A demographic portrait of America's oldest old / Cynthia M. Taeuber and Ira Rosenwaike -- Cohort succession and the future of the oldest old / Samuel H. Preston -- The paradox of the oldest old in the United States : an international comparison / George C. Myers, Barbara Boyle Torrey, and Kevin G. Kinsella -- Conceptual issues in the design and analysis of longitudinal surveys of the health and functioning of the oldest old / Kenneth G. Manton and Richard M. Suzman -- Observations on interview surveys of the oldest old / Robert B. Wallace, Frank J. Kohout, and Patricia L. Colsher -- Collecting data about the oldest old : problems and procedures / Willard L. Rodgers and A. Regula Herzog -- Mortality and life expectancy changes among the oldest old / Kenneth G. Manton.</tableOfContents>
  <tableOfContents>Causes of death among the oldest old / Evan C. Hadley -- Disability and mortality among the oldest old : implications for current and future health and long-term-care service needs / Kenneth G. Manton and Beth J. Soldo -- The oldest old and the use of institutional long-term care from an international perspective / Pamela J. Doty -- Epidemiology of disability in the oldest old / Joan C. Cornoni-Huntley ... [et al.] -- The impact of Alzheimer's disease in the United States population / Denis A. Evans ... [et al.] -- The social environment of the very old / Mary Grace Kovar and Robyn I. Stone -- The black oldest old : health, functioning, and informal support / Rose C. Gibson and James S. Jackson -- The robust oldest old : optimistic perspectives for increasing healthy life expectancy / Richard M. Suzman ... [et al.] -- Making it last : economic resources of the oldest old / G. Lawrence Atkins.</tableOfContents>
  <tableOfContents>Sharing increasing costs on declining income : the visible dilemma of the invisible aged / Barbara Boyle Torrey -- The oldest old and "intergenerational equity" / Robert H. Binstock.</tableOfContents>
  <note type="statement of responsibility">edited by Richard M. Suzman, David P. Willis, Kenneth G. Manton.</note>
  <note>Includes bibliographical references and indexes.</note>
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    <topic>Aged</topic>
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    <geographic>United States</geographic>
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    <topic>Aged, 80 and over</topic>
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    <topic>Aged</topic>
    <topic>Long-term care</topic>
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
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    <topic>Social work with the aged</topic>
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Aged</topic>
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
    <topic>Social conditions</topic>
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    <topic>Old persons</topic>
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  <subject>
    <topic>United States</topic>
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