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PubMed1978

The familial component in longevity--a study of offspring of nonagenarians: III. Intrafamilial studies.

The effect of parental longevity on the length of survival of offspring has been examined according to selected demographic and environmental characteristics. The present study is based on 7,103 progeny, 20 years old or older. They were the sons and daughters of 1,766 men or women, 90 or more years old, who were alive in 1922-1930 at the time of ascertainment. The age at death of the other parent of the offspring is the basis of classification used in this analysis. A positive relationship was found between age at death of the non-proband parent and the age at death of the offspring. This relationship existed regardless of similarities or differences in the characteristics analyzed.

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PubMed1995

Dental findings in geriatric populations with diverse medical backgrounds.

OBJECTIVE: To determine whether there is a difference in the oral/dental health in older persons with different life styles and medical status. STUDY DESIGN: Survey (cross-sectional study) included four groups: (1) subjects (n = 123) living in a residential retirement home or community dwelling; (2) subjects (n = 218) seeking dental treatment at a Veterans Affairs Dental Outpatient Clinic; (3) subjects (n = 132) resident in a VA long-term care facility; and (4) subjects (n = 81) recently admitted to a VA acute care ward with a diagnosis of cerebral vascular accident or other neurologic problem. Each subject answered questions on medical and dental health and dietary preferences in a comprehensive interview. They were given a comprehensive dental examination that included measurements of stimulated salivary flow and minor salivary gland output. RESULTS: The data from groups 2 and 3 confirmed previous reports that independent living subjects have better oral/dental health than dependent living subjects. The data from groups 1 and 4, obtained from geriatric populations on the opposite ends of the medical health/disease continuum provide new information that suggests that good medical health and good oral/dental health are linked. The subjects in group 1 were very healthy as judged by their longevity; 54% were > or = 80 years and they had low reported prevalence of medical disease. Only 6% were edentulous and the dentate persons were missing 4.5 teeth. In contrast, over 50% of the patients in group 4 were < 70 years; they had an edentulous rate of 49% and among the dentate persons had an average 12 missing and 5 decayed teeth. CONCLUSIONS: The medically healthy persons had excellent dental health whereas the sickest persons were either edentulous or had many missing teeth.

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PubMed1975

Intraurban location of the elderly.

Are the aged concentrated in the inner-city? Are they confined to lower value housing in older neighborhoods? Although the spatial pattern of the elderly in Toledo, Ohio, is dissimilar from that of the nonelderly, they are widely distributed throughout the city. The associations between the location of the elderly and variables such as distance to the Central Business District, age of neighborhood, value of housing, and multiple-family dwelling units are statistically significant. However, these associations are weak and at no time between 1940 and 1970 are more than 40% of the variations in the aged's distribution explained.

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PubMed1976

Born to be poor: birthplace and number of brothers and sisters as factors in adult poverty.

Household heads who grew up as members of large families and/or as natives of small towns or rural areas tend to have less education and are more likely to be poor than those coming from small families and/or large cities. Data to support these conclusions have been drawn from two independent sources--a special Social Security Administration supplement to the April 1968 Current Population Survey and findings from the Retirement History Study conducted by the Social Security Administration.

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