Current Health Status and the Future Demand for Health Care Programs and Social Support Services: Follow-Up Analyses from the Survey of Aging Veterans

摘要

The report presents information on the current health status of veterans aged 55 and over as it relates to their future demand for health care programs and social support services. In particular, the information in the report may be of use to VA health care planners who wish to correlate veterans' attitudes about their current health with veterans' future requirements for VA medical programs and services. The report is the fourth in a series of special studies based on data obtained from the 1983 Survey of Aging Veterans (SAV), which was conducted by Louis Harris and Associates, Inc. The Veterans Administration commissioned SAV in order to obtain information with which to assess the medical care needs, resources, and expectations of the aging veteran population. SAV was conducted as a national household survey of noninstitutionalized male and female veterans aged 55 and over.