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Excerpt from Family Economics Review, 1991, Vol. 4: No. 1 Projections of an increasingly older population have far-reaching implications for educational pro grams and public policy on issues related to health and social and economic well-being of the older population. This study contributes to the discussion of these effects by providing information on the current socioeconomic and demographic characteristics of this population and on their income and expenditure patterns. Households with a reference person 80 years or older and those with a head age 70 to 79 years are compared. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.