Trends in Health and Aging is now part of an integrated National Center for Health Statistics web data tool, Health Data Interactive (HDI). On December 31, 2008, you will be redirected to our recently released site, Health Data Interactive (http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/hdi.htm). Thank you for your interest and support of THA and we look forward to continuing to provide interactive data tables on a wide range of population health issues. Please update your bookmarks.

Welcome! On our site you will find tables on trends in the health of older Americans showing data by age, sex, race and Hispanic origin. The tables are easy to customize.  Instructions

• Table Topics

• Chronic Conditions
• Functional Status and Disability
• Health Care Expenditures
• Health Care Utilization
• Health Insurance
• Immunization
• Incontinence
• Injury
• Life Expectancy
• Living Arrangements

• Search Tables

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• Mental Health
• Mortality
• Oral Health
• Perceived Health Status
• Population, Nation and State
• Risk Factors
• Socio-Economic Status
• Special Equipment Use
• Use and Cost of Prescription Medication
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• Planning to use our data on a regular basis?
• Save the tables with all their special features (mapping, statistical tests, offline access) on your own computer.

• Using Our Data

• First Visit
• FAQs
• Instructions
• State Data
• Data Sources
• How current are the data?
• Statistical Tests
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• Citation: [Data Source*] National Center for Health Statistics, Trends in Health and Aging. http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/agingact.htm. Accessed on [Date of access]. *You will find the data source in the table titles

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• Resources

• What's New
• PowerPoint Presentations
• Request Workshop
• Aging Reports
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• The Longitudinal Study of Aging (LSOA)
  Surveys conducted in 1984-1990 and 1994-2000 that measure changes in health across two cohorts of elderly Americans.
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• Federal Forum on Aging Related Statistics
   Brings Federal agencies together to improve aging-related statistics.
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• Health Data for All Ages
  Tables on health of Americans of all ages.
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• Teaching Modules (in development)
  Review the draft modules at the American Society on Aging
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Phone:
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