Longitudinal Study on Aging (LSOA) Files

This series contains information collected over time from a cohort of older individuals as part of a health and social survey. Information was collected from a group of aging respondents about their health status, functioning, and changes in functional status over time (including limitation and restriction of activities, chronic conditions and impairments, acute conditions, activities of daily living, opinions about one's health status); health care use (doctor visits and hospital and nursing home stays, use of community services); demographic and socioeconomic characteristics (age, sex, race, marital status, education and income, family structure and changes in living arrangements over time); health insurance coverage (kind of health insurance the respondent has, hospitalization and other care covered by Medicare); and information about the respondent's death (including date of death, c auses of death).

This data comprises government records extracted from the Archival Research Catalog (ARC). See the ARC catalog entry for this series for more information on this data and how to order it.