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This book investigates demographic and social aspects of aging in nonmetropolitan areas of the United States in the twenty-first century. This introductory chapter briefly overviews the persisting and changing trends related to aging in rural environments. We identify major themes examined in the various chapters of the book. We next address the question of why it is important to study population aging in the rural United States. We define major concepts used across many of the chapters of the book. Finally, we describe briefly the content of major sections of the book and chapters within each section.
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Notes
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Across the various chapters of this book, 65 years of age and older is frequently used to define the elderly segment of the US population. Because authors in different chapters use different data sets for their analyses and because the year or years the data were collected vary, the reader will see small variations in the percent of the population reported to be 65 years of age and older, 85 years of age and older, etc. These slight variations should not be considered errors but rather due to different methods used to collect data, different dates of data collection, and so on.
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As one example of this approach, see Slack and Rizzuto, Chap. 4, this volume.
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Johnson and Lichter, Chap. 15, this volume, for example, use this latter approach in their data analysis.
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The authors acknowledge support from Cornell Agricultural Experiment Station Project NYC-15980 and Utah Agricultural Experiment Station Project 0835.
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Glasgow, N., Berry, E.H. (2013). Introduction to Rural Aging in Twenty-First Century America. In: Glasgow, N., Berry, E. (eds) Rural Aging in 21st Century America. Understanding Population Trends and Processes, vol 7. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-5567-3_1
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