This report covers 37 key indicators selected by the Forum to portray aspects of the lives of older Americans and their families.  It is divided into five subject areas:  population, economics, health status, health risks and behaviors, and health care.  It is available online in both html and pdf.

• PowerPoint Slides of the Charts
• How to obtain a hard copy
• Press Release:  [html] [pdf] "Most older people are healthier, wealthier, and better educated than previous generations, but these gains have not been equal among today¡¯s older Americans...."
• Updated Excel spreadsheets of the data tables (updated with more recent data and/or standard errors for the most recent data).]  
• The Historical Experience of Three Cohorts of Older Americans: An Interactive Timeline of Selected Events - [Users may add their own events and print the timeline but cannot save the revised file.]

About the Federal Interagency Forum on Aging-Related Statistics
Links to Aging-Related Statistical Information on Forum Member Web Sites
Ongoing Federal Data Resources Relevant to the Study of the Aging
Past Products of Forum Activities
         Older Americans 2000: Key Indicators of Well-Being
Agency Contacts
Subject Area Contact List for Federal Statistics [PDF version] 

The Forum encourages collaboration among federal agencies to improve the quality and usefulness of data on the aging population.  The Forum membership includes 13 federal agencies that produce or use statistics on aging.  It provides these agencies with a setting to discuss data issues and concerns that cut across agency boundaries; facilitates in development of new databases; improves mechanisms currently used to disseminate information on aging-related data; invites researchers to report on cutting-edge analyses of data; and encourages international collaboration.