Interviewing the "Old Old"

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With larger cohorts of the very old, subjects in their 80s and 90s will be increasingly sought as respondents. If this much older group is to be properly represented, the impaired, the frail, and the institutionalized must be included, as well as alert and healthy community residents. Pre-interview approaches should be paced to permit these older respondents to reassure themselves about the interviewer; instruments should be adapted and special adjustments made to accommodate those with intermittent or chronic confusion, problems of sight, hearing, or speech, and precautions taken to bar interference from overprotective or “helpful” relatives and attendants. These points are illustrated by material drawn from a study of two homes for the aged.

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