The purpose of this study was to examine cohort comparisons in levels of resources (e.g., mental health, physical functioning, economic and social resources, and cognitive functioning) for 211 community-dwelling centenarians (whose Mini-Mental Status Examination score was 23 or higher) of phases I and III of the Georgia Centenarian Study. The…

The purpose of this study was to understand more about the impact of living in a rural area on personal learning with older adults. This is important to consider because of the higher concentration of older adults in rural areas. This qualitative research was based on twenty interviews with older adults. All of the participants lived in the same…

The economic benefit that communities derive from in-migration of retired persons has been well recognized in rural development literature. This paper examines the impact of Georgia county attributes on net migration by persons 55 years old and older from 1975 to 1980. Data were obtained from the 1982 County-City Data Book, the U.S. Census…

The proceedings of the First Annual Georgia Conference on Aging contains five papers, reports from discussion groups, and transcripts of a panel discussion. The focus was on the encouragement of self-advocacy and the identification of achievable goals among older adults in order to generate some of the basic political changes that will improve the…

Death rates among those referred to project services were lower within the first six months after enrollment, and the mortality rate difference was maintained throughout the first year. Death rate differences were related to specific long-term care services recommended and received, and to initial functional health status. (Author)