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Suggested Citation:"APPENDIX A: AGENDA, WORKSHOP ON PRIORITIES FOR DATA ON THE AGING POPULATION." National Research Council. 1996. Improving Data on America's Aging Population: Summary of a Workshop. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/5481.
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Appendix A
AGENDA

Workshop on Priorities for Data on the Aging Population

Committee on National Statistics

Committee on Population

4–5 March 1996

National Academy of Sciences

Room 130

Green Building

2001 Wisconsin Avenue, N.W.

Washington, D.C.

Monday, March 4

Part I

Introduction

 

9:00

Welcome and Opening Remarks

Dorothy Rice Richard Suzman Barbara Torrey

9:15

Purpose and Goals of Workshop

Dorothy Rice

9:25

Discussion of Findings and Recommendations of the 1988 CNSTAT Report, The Aging Population in the Twenty-First Century: Statistics for Health Policy

Dorothy Rice

 

(The chair will begin the discussion with a brief overview of the major findings and recommendations of the report. Commentary and discussion will follow.)

Suggested Citation:"APPENDIX A: AGENDA, WORKSHOP ON PRIORITIES FOR DATA ON THE AGING POPULATION." National Research Council. 1996. Improving Data on America's Aging Population: Summary of a Workshop. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/5481.
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Part II

How Will the Future Population at Older Ages Be Different?

 

This session will present the major scenarios for the aging population. The designated leader will begin with 10–15 minutes of commentary and the discussion will then be opened up for other participants to provide their comments and views. Discussions will focus on the important policy issues and the needed data to inform policy making. The goal of this part of the workshop is to take a visionary look toward anticipating what we need to know. Discussion will not be just about fairly immediate program-related needs, but more importantly about long-range data needs that will address major policy and research questions.

9:45 a.m.

Major Demographic Trends in the Population at Older Ages

Timothy Smeeding

 

(What are the major demographic, economic, and other social changes we will see as the population ages—in education, health, income and wealth, household composition, and living and income sharing arrangements?)

11:00 a.m.

Health, Disability, and Functional Status Longevity and Quality of Life

Beth Soldo

 

(What do we need to get better projections, as well as a better understanding of the forces underlying trends and racial and social differences?)

1:30 p.m

Trends in Long-Term Care

Robyn Stone

2:30 p.m.

Health Care: Delivery, Organization, and Financing

Marilyn Moon

 

(Discussion topics will include trends in managed care, block grants for Medicaid, proportion of family budgets spent on health care, and health utilization and expenditures.)

3:45 p.m.

The Baby Boomers Face Retirement: Health, Wealth, and Demography

Mike Hurd

 

(What changes do we expect, for example, in labor force participation of the elderly, in savings of the future elderly, and in inter-generational transfers as the low-fertility high-divorce cohorts age?)

Suggested Citation:"APPENDIX A: AGENDA, WORKSHOP ON PRIORITIES FOR DATA ON THE AGING POPULATION." National Research Council. 1996. Improving Data on America's Aging Population: Summary of a Workshop. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/5481.
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4:45 p.m.

Research Opportunities with Current and Potential Surveys

Robert Wallace

 

(Topics to be covered include lineages, genetic markers, tertiary prevention.)

5:30 p.m.

Adjourn

 

Tuesday, March 5

9:00 a.m.

Rapporteur's Review of Major Issues and Identified Data Needs

Deborah Carr Anu Pemmarazu

Part III

Taking Stock of Current Surveys to Meet Future Needs

9:45 a.m.

How Current Surveys or Modifications to Them Meet the Needs

Dorothy Rice

 

(HRS, AHEAD, NLTCS, LSOA, SOAII, NHIS, and other surveys)

 

 

This session will be structured as a roundtable discussion. Specifically, the chair will call upon each of the survey representatives to speak about their respective surveys in the context of Part II and the important needs that are fulfilled by the survey, how the survey can be used as an instrument to meet future data needs and inform policy, and what the potentials are for data linkage.

Part IV

Methods to Fill the Gaps

 

11:00 a.m.

The Future Environment for Data Collection

 

 

The Federal Statistical System

Katherine Wallman

 

Organization and budgets

 

 

Confidentiality and data sharing

 

 

Consolidation of household surveys

 

 

Continuous measurement

 

 

Interagency collaboration

 

 

New responsibilities for states

 

Suggested Citation:"APPENDIX A: AGENDA, WORKSHOP ON PRIORITIES FOR DATA ON THE AGING POPULATION." National Research Council. 1996. Improving Data on America's Aging Population: Summary of a Workshop. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/5481.
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1:00 p.m.

Suggestions for Improvements in Data Collection

Robert Hauser

 

(This session will cover data linkages, models, collection methodologies, administrative records, consolidation of surveys, continuous measurement.)

 

This discussion will be structured similarly to Part I: the leader will begin with 10–15 minutes of introductory comments, and the discussion will then be open for comments from participants.

Part V

Conclusions

 

2:00 p.m.

Summary and Conclusions

Dorothy Rice

 

(This session will review of population trends and policy issues, identified data needs, and current or potential data sources.)

Suggested Citation:"APPENDIX A: AGENDA, WORKSHOP ON PRIORITIES FOR DATA ON THE AGING POPULATION." National Research Council. 1996. Improving Data on America's Aging Population: Summary of a Workshop. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/5481.
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Suggested Citation:"APPENDIX A: AGENDA, WORKSHOP ON PRIORITIES FOR DATA ON THE AGING POPULATION." National Research Council. 1996. Improving Data on America's Aging Population: Summary of a Workshop. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/5481.
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Suggested Citation:"APPENDIX A: AGENDA, WORKSHOP ON PRIORITIES FOR DATA ON THE AGING POPULATION." National Research Council. 1996. Improving Data on America's Aging Population: Summary of a Workshop. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/5481.
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Suggested Citation:"APPENDIX A: AGENDA, WORKSHOP ON PRIORITIES FOR DATA ON THE AGING POPULATION." National Research Council. 1996. Improving Data on America's Aging Population: Summary of a Workshop. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/5481.
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The Committee on National Statistics and the Committee on Population, at the request of the NIA, convened a workshop in March 1996 to discuss data on the aging population that address the emerging and important social, economic, and health conditions of the older population. The purposes of the workshop were to identify how the population at older ages in the next few decades will differ from the older population today, to understand the underlying causes of those changes, to anticipate future problems and policy issues, and to suggest future needs for data for research in these areas. The scope of the workshop was broader than that of the 1988 CNSTAT report, including not only data on health and long-term care, but also actuarial, economic, demographic, housing, and epidemiological data needs for informing public policy.

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