TY - BOOK AU - National Research Council A2 - Deborah Carr A2 - Anu Pemmarazu A2 - Dorothy P. Rice TI - Improving Data on America's Aging Population: Summary of a Workshop SN - 978-0-309-05633-5 DO - 10.17226/5481 PY - 1996 UR - https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/5481/improving-data-on-americas-aging-population-summary-of-a-workshop PB - The National Academies Press CY - Washington, DC LA - English KW - Behavioral and Social Sciences AB - The Committee on National Statistics and the Committee on Population, at the request of the NIA, convened a workshop in March 1996 to discuss data on the aging population that address the emerging and important social, economic, and health conditions of the older population. The purposes of the workshop were to identify how the population at older ages in the next few decades will differ from the older population today, to understand the underlying causes of those changes, to anticipate future problems and policy issues, and to suggest future needs for data for research in these areas. The scope of the workshop was broader than that of the 1988 CNSTAT report, including not only data on health and long-term care, but also actuarial, economic, demographic, housing, and epidemiological data needs for informing public policy. ER -