million); Ohio, Illinois, Michigan, and New Jersey each had well over 1 million. The 65 or older population was slightly less likely to live in metropolitan areas in 1999 than younger persons. About 50 percent of older persons lived in the suburbs, 27 percent live in central cities, and 23 percent lived in nonmetropolitan areas.2 Living arrangements of America’s older adults are closely linked ...

Objectives-This report presents 2006 national estimates and selected trend data on the use of nonfederal short-stay hospitals in the United States. Estimates are provided by selected patient and hospital characteristics, diagnoses, and surgical and nonsurgical procedures performed. Estimates of diagnoses and procedures are presented according to the International Classification of Diseases, Nin...

This article explores typical life-course trajectories based on annual observations of educational participation, employment, and establishing a family from age sixteen to thirty. Using latent class analysis, we identify seven different trajectory classes that capture the life courses experienced by individuals born in 1986. Examples are (1) an early partner childbearing trajectory; (2) mixes e...

Since passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), much attention has been focused on the functioning of Health Insurance Marketplaces (HIMs). In this brief, cumulative county-level enrollment in HIMs through March 2015 is presented for state HIMs operated as Federally Facilitated Marketplaces (FFMs) and Federally Supported State-Based Marketplaces (FS-SBMs). We provide comp...

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act established Health Insurance Marketplaces (HIMs) in all 50 states and the District of Columbia. This policy brief assesses the changes in HIMs from 2014 to 2015 in terms of choices offered and premiums charged, with emphasis on how these measures vary across rural and urban places. Key Findings. (1) In 74 percent of HIM rating areas, the number of ...

There are a number of technical and statistical problems in monitoring the temporal and spatial variation of local area death rates in the United States for evidence of systematically elevated risks. An analytic strategy is proposed to reduce one of the major statistical concerns, i.e., that of identifying areas with truly elevated mortality risks from a large number of local area comparisons. ...

Earlier research on residential mobility has demonstrated a tendency for the young old of the 55+-population to prefer peripheral locations, whereas older age groups choose central locations. Here, we present survey results indicating that such late-adulthood differences in preferences are supported by age–related shifts corresponding to differences in housing preferences expressed by individua...