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COMPTROLL[R SENERAL OF THE UNITED UTATES
WASMINGTON. 0.C. 2054
OCTOBER 15, 1979
B-165430
The Honorable Mario Biaggi .'j]X/
Chairman, Subcommittee on
Human Services 110594
House Select Committee on Aging
Dear Mr. Chairman:
Subject: Conditions And Needs of People 75 Years Old
and Older(HRD-80-7)
Pursuant to your March 14, 1979, letter and subsequent
discussions held with your office, we have included in two
enclosures to this letter information on the well-being of
people 75 years old and older, their need for services, and
the cost of providing services to these people. As agreed
with your office, we have presented the information you
requested in a question and answer format.
The information contained in the enclosures is based on
our study of the personal conditions of older people in
Cleveland, Ohio. Three other reports have been issued on
this study entitled (1) The Well-Being of Older People in
Cleveland, Ohio (HRD-77-70, Apr. 19, 1977), (2) Conditions
of Older People: National Information System Needed
(HRD-79-95, Sept. 20, 1979), and (3) Home Health--The Need
for a National Policy to Better Provide for the Elderly
(HRD-78-19, Dec. 30, 1977).
We could not obtain national estimates of the cost of
help provided to people 75 years old and older from all
sources. The results of our work are not statistically
projectable to the entire Nation. However, because your
office said that projections based on the Cleveland results
would be beneficial and helpful to the Subcommittee and your
office requested us to do so, we have projected the results
of our studies in Cleveland, Ohio, to the estimated 7.8 mil-
lion noninstitutionalized people 75 years old and older in
1975 in the Nation. We emphasize that the estimates pre-
sented were not made on a statistical basis.
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