Social Work

The Forum continues to explore ways of providing an easy-to-understand picture of timely and relevant data related to older adults.

This report provides the latest data on the 41 key indicators selected by the Forum to portray aspects of the lives of older Americans and their families.

The Alzheimer’s Disease and Healthy Aging Data Portal provides easy access to national and state level CDC data on a range of key indicators of health and well-being for older adults.

The AGID Program Data Portal is an on-line query system based on ACL-related data files and surveys, and includes population characteristics from the Census Bureau for comparison purposes.

The National Archive of Computerized Data on Aging (NACDA) acquires and preserves data relevant to gerontological research, processing as needed to promote effective research use, disseminates them to researchers, and facilitates their use.

The University of Michigan Health and Retirement Study (HRS) is a longitudinal panel study that surveys a representative sample of approximately 20,000 people in America, supported by the National Institute on Aging (NIA U01AG009740) and the Social Security Administration.