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Consumers/clients: Late career, retirement Body
Body: Nutrition, diet
	Hearings on Dietary Supplements: What Seniors Need to Know (U.S. Senate Special Committee on Aging), May 26, 2010
		http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=111_senate_hearings&docid=f:57983.wais.pdf, Free Includes written and oral testimony from government officials, commercial representatives, and consumer advocates.
Body: Exercise
Body: Physical illness / health / wellness
	Chung, Sukyung, et al, "Effect of Retirement on Weight, The", Journals of Gerontology Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, September 2009 (Vol. 64B, No. 5)
		http://psychsocgerontology.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/64B/5/656 The authors document that people who are close to retirement age show the highest rates of weight gain and obesity.
	Health Care Utilization Among Adults Aged 55–64 Years: How Has It Changed Over the Past 10 Years?
		U.S. National Center for Health Statistics, March 2010, Free http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/databriefs/db32.pdf Among other findings, outpatient hospital procedures have roughly doubled, while inpatient visits, though stable in frequency, have changed in kind.
	Johnson, Richard W., et al, Disability Just Before Retirement Often Leads to Poverty
		Urban Institute, January 2009, Free http://www.urban.org/uploadedpdf/412009_disability_retirement.pdf Tha authors explain how many Americans who develop disabilities in their fifties or early sixties fall into poverty.
	Johnson, Richard W., et al, Work Ability and the Social Insurance Safety Net in the Years Prior to Retirement
		Urban Institute, November 2009, Free http://www.urban.org/uploadedpdf/412008_work_ability.pdf This report examines disability benefit receipt, income, and poverty status for a sample of Americans as they age, and reveals that fewer than half of people who meet the authors’ disability criteria ever receive disability benefits in their fifties or early sixties.
	McGill, Thomas M., Optimizing Function in Old Age: Our Grandparents, Our Parents, Our Future Selves,
		Syracuse University Center for Policy Research, 2010, Free http://www-cpr.maxwell.syr.edu/pbriefs/pb42.pdf McGill emphasizes that functional decline and disability are dynamic processes with high rates of recovery; and that disability is clearly preventable through exercise and physical activity, through fall prevention, and perhaps in the future through pharmacologic treatment.
	Schoenborn, Charlotte A. and Heyman, Kathleen M., Health Characteristics of Adults Aged 55 Years and Over: United States, 2004–2007
		Centers for Disease Control, July 8, 2009, Free http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nhsr/nhsr016.pdf This report, National Health Statistics Report No. 16, highlights selected health characteristics of four age groups of older adults — 55-64 years, 65-74 years, 75-84 years, and 85 years and over — using data from the 2004 through 2007 National Health Interview Survey.
	U.S. News Best Hospitals (U.S. News & World Report)
		http://health.usnews.com/best-hospitals/rankings, Free Ranks some 5,000 U.S. hospitals for 16 adult specialties, using death rates, patient safety, and ratings by 9,000 specialists.
	Using State Hospital Discharge Data to Compare Readmission Rates in Medicare Advantage and Medicare’s Traditional Fee-for-Service Program
		AHIP Center for Policy Research, May 2010, Free http://www.ahipresearch.org/pdfs/9State-Readmits.pdf This study found greater reductions in hospital readmission rates for patients using Medicare Advantage programs.
Body: Medicine
	"Emergency Department Visits Involving Adverse Reactions to Medications among Older Adults", Dawn Report, The, February 24, 2011
		http://oas.samhsa.gov/2k11/DAWN013/AdverseReactionsOlderAdults_HTML.pdf, Free The U.S. Center for Behavioral Health Statistics and Quality reports that in 2008 there were over 1.1 million emergency hospital visits for adverse drug reactions by people age 50 and up, and that about one-third of those led to actual hospitalization.
	Prescription Drug Options for Older Adults (National Association of Area Agencies on Aging)
		http://www.n4a.org/programs/best-buy-drugs/, Free Offers advice on Medicare drug plans for consumers and professionals
	Schondelmeyer, Stephen W., and Purvis, Leigh , Rx Price Watch Report
		AARP Public Policy Institute, July 2011, Free http://assets.aarp.org/rgcenter/ppi/health-care/rx-pricewatch-july-2011.pdf The AARP Public Policy Institute drug price tracker, reconceived and reissued, showing trends in retail prescription drug prices commonly used by Medicare beneficiaries, from 2005-2009.
Body: Death and dying
	Coping With End-of-Life Decisions
		Pew Research Center, August 20, 2009, Free http://pewresearch.org/pubs/1320/opinion-end-of-life-care-right-to-die-living-will Poll results concerning the right to die, providing written instructions on end-of-life medical treatment, and discussing these issues with adult children.
Body: Caregiving
	Keen, Justin, and Bell, David, Identifying a Fairer System for Funding Adult Social Care
		Joseph Rountree Foundation, October 2009, Free http://www.jrf.org.uk/sites/files/jrf/fairer-funding-adult-social-care.pdf Keen and Bell discuss the fairness of adult social care programs in the U.K. in response to the government’s 'Green Paper, Shaping the Future of Care Together'.
Body: Other / general / not specified
	"Illicit Drug Use among Older Adults"
		National Survey on Drug Use and Health, December 29, 2009, Free http://oas.samhsa.gov/2k9/168/168OlderAdults.cfm This report documents that there are about 4 million Americans in or near retirement who use illicit drugs. The report is available with and without detailed data tables
	Ng, Judy, Quality of Care for Midlife Adults (Ages 45–64) Versus Older Adults (Ages >65)
		U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, May 2010, Free http://aspe.hhs.gov/health/reports/2010/qualcare/report.shtml#_Toc261259568 While focusing mainly on people with diabetes, Ng reports persistent disparities in care based on race/ethnicity, socioeconomic status and gender, and for subgroups at particular risk.