questions

6. What's the percentage of old people with serious health conditions?
7. How active are elderly people in the community?
9. How many abuse substances?
10. How many are on anti-depressants?
11. How many old people live in poverty?
"Between 1959 and 1974, the elderly poverty rate fell from 35 percent to 15 percent. This was largely attributable to a set of increases in Social Security benefits. The elderly poverty rate has continued to decline in subsequent decades, reaching 9.4 percent in 2006. Social Security and Supplemental Security Income benefits continue to play a key role in reducing elderly poverty, especially among women and people of color. If Social Security benefits did not exist, an estimated 44 percent of the elderly would be poor today, assuming no changes in behavior. Yet there is still work to do. Currently, 3.4 million seniors age 65 and older live below the poverty line." http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2008/07/elderly_poverty.html


15. What's the percentage of old people who go to therapy?

16. What's the suicide rate for elderly people?
"in the age bracket of 65 years and above. The overall U.S. suicide rate is 11 per 100,000 people. But for those 65 and older, that figure rises to 14 per 100,000, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention." http://www.depressionblog.org/entry/suicide-rate-among-elderly-rises/

20 Questions- How Old People Live

1. What are conditions like in nursing homes?
2. What activities/hobbies are common for old people?
3. Are their lives more scheduled or spontaneous?
4. What are the most common ways for them to spend their time?
5. If they have kids, how often do they visit or check up on them?
6. What's the percentage of old people with serious health conditions?
7. How active are elderly people in the community?
8. Would it be better if old people lived together, like roommates?
9. How many abuse substances?
10. How many are on anti-depressants?
11. How many old people live in poverty?
12. What is money mostly spent on for old people?
13. How many old people get beat in nursing homes?
14. Do more live in the suburbs versus the city?
15. What's the percentage of old people who go to therapy?
16. What's the suicide rate for elderly people?
17. What does it feel like to be dependent on others?
18. What is most pleasurable for old people (travel, romance, etc)?
19. What do they find most comforting?
20. How do they feel internally?