Health care coverage is almost universal through Medicare. Medicare B coverage is similar. Three quarters of the sample also have other types of insurance. Chapter 7 discusses housing accommodations. The two samples vary significantly only in age of housing and the number of stories.
Mobile homes are a popular choice of housing for the elderly, particularly in Florida.
Over half of this kind of housing is in rural areas. Chapter 8 details health issues in some depth. We enumerate health variables through comparison of the Florida oversample and the core sample. Finally, we discuss characteristics of older individuals with specific health limitations by all the above details. For older adults, killer diseases such as heart disease, stroke, and cancer have been decreasing since the 1980's.