The effects of health changes on projections of health service needs for the elderly population of the United States

The 1982–1994 National Long-Term Care Surveys indicate an accelerating decline in disability among the U.S. elderly population, suggesting that a 1.5% annual decline in chronic disability for elderly persons is achievable. Furthermore, many risk factors for chronic diseases show improvements, many linked to education, from 1910 to the present. Projections indicate the proportion of persons aged 85–89 with less than 8 years of education will decline from 65% in 1980 to 15% in 2015. Health and socioeconomic status trends are not directly represented in Medicare Trust Fund and Social Security Administration beneficiary projections. Thus, they may have different economic implications from projections directly accounting for health trends. A 1.5% annual disability decline keeps the support ratio (ratio of economically active persons aged 20–64 to the number of chronically disabled persons aged 65+) above its 1994 value, 22:1, when the Hospital Insurance Trust Fund was in fiscal balance, to 2070. With no changes in disability, projections indicate a support ratio in 2070 of 8:1—63% below a cash flow balance.

Anaerobic Digestion Project Working Guide: A Case Study Analysis and Procedural Summary of Anaerobic Digester Projects for the United States Agricultural Sector

Renewable energy such as biomass has given markets, including dairy farms, an effective approach to reducing the costs of sustaining a profitable business. Anaerobic digestion systems offer dairy farms a very effective way to reduce manure odor, comply with soil and water pollution regulations, manufacture compost for general market sales, produce irrigation capacity and generate on-site electricity as well as the ability to sell excess electricity back to the local utilities. This project defines anaerobic digestion technologies and practices, analyzes case studies and presents a step-by-step anaerobic digestion project startup checklist. The result is an anaerobic digestion project working guide that acts as a tool to aid dairy farmers in their own potential anaerobic digestion project.

United States-Latin American relations: problems of Latin American economic development. A study...No. 6. Problems of Latin American economic development. Prepared at the request of the Subcommittee on American Republics affairs

Mode of access: Internet.

Development of a model library microform center : submitted to United States Environmental Protection Agency, Library Systems Branch /

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Fertility tables for birth cohorts by color : United States, 1917-73 /

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Revision of title 28, United States Code.

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Report of the Honorable James P. McGranery, Attorney General of the United States, to the Judicial Conference of the United States.

"September 22, 1952."

Report of the Honorable Herbert Brownell, Jr., Attorney General of the United States, to the Judicial Conference of the United States.

"September 24, 1953."

A contemporary overview of traffic law uniformity in the United States: 1968-1978.

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From test tube to patient : new drug development in the United States.

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Performance characteristics of automotive engines in the United States. First series--report no. 12. 1975 Perkins diesel 247 CID (4.0 liters), F.I. Interim report.

Transportation Systems Center, Cambridge, Mass.

Performance characteristics of automotive engines in the United States. First series--report no. 13. 1975 American Motors 258 CID (4.2 liters), 1V. Interim report.

Transportation Systems Center, Cambridge, Mass.

Performance characteristics of automotive engines in the United States. Second series--report no. 1. 1976 Chevrolet Vega 140 CID (2.3 liters), 2V. Interim report.

Transportation Systems Center, Cambridge, Mass.