This study tests the accuracy of current consensus that physical and economic consequences of crime are greater for the elderly than for other age groups. Crime problem of the elderly may not be an age-related problem but rather a condition-related problem, the condition being one of low income. (Author)

A sample of the aged derived from the 1900 federal manuscript census reveals that when aged parents and children coresided, the old were more often the heads of houses than their children. Unlike the aged today, they continued to work and to have children at home as they did in middle age. (Author)

Interviewed 136 female heads of households in rural Sri Lanka. Found that marital status figured more importantly than age in use of health services. Concludes that, as unmarried heads of households increase in less developed places, their demands for health care at the village level likely will escalate. (Author/NB)