Figure 12.2.
Percent of adults aged 65 years and over who need the help of other persons
with personal care needs, by sex and age group: United States, January-June 2002
NOTE: Personal care
needs or activities of daily living (ADL) include such things as eating,
bathing, dressing, or getting around inside the person’s home.
DATA SOURCE: Based on
data collected from January through June in the Family Core component of
the 2002 National Health Interview Survey.
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For both sexes combined, adults aged 85 years and
over were more than 6 times as likely as adults aged 65-74 years old to
need help with personal care from other persons.
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For adults aged 85 years and over, women were more
likely to than men to need help with personal care from other persons.
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