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1994 • 3,115 citations

The Jackknife and Bootstrap

1995 • 1,985 citations

An Epidemiology of Disability among Adults in the United States

1976 • 1,431 citations

Active Life Expectancy

1983 • 822 citations

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Educational Status and Active Life Expectancy among Older Blacks and Whites

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National estimates of the quantity and cost of informal caregiving for the elderly with dementia

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The Effect of Longevity on Spending for Acute and Long-Term Care

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Understanding trends in functional limitations among older Americans.

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Potential and Active Family Caregivers: Changing Networks and the ‘Sandwich Generation’

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Changing Mortality and Morbidity Rates and the Health Status and Life Expectancy of the Older Population

1994 • 297 citations

Differentials in Active Life Expectancy in the Older Population of the United States

1996 • 258 citations

Dying with Cancer: Patients' Function, Symptoms, and Care Preferences as Death Approaches

2000 • 232 citations

Disability Trends Among Elderly Persons and Implications for the Future

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Cigarette Smoking and Lifetime Medical Expenditures

1992 • 207 citations

Persistent, Consistent, Widespread, and Robust? Another Look at Recent Trends in Old-Age Disability

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The effects of health changes on projections of health service needs for the elderly population of the United States

1998 • 169 citations

Benefit of a Favorable Cardiovascular Risk-Factor Profile in Middle Age with Respect to Medicare Costs

1998 • 164 citations

New Methods for Analyzing Active Life Expectancy

1998 • 148 citations

Estimating Increment-Decrement Life Tables with Multiple Covariates from Panel Data: The Case of Active Life Expectancy

1994 • 133 citations

Increasing longevity and medicare expenditures

2001 • 123 citations

Characteristics of elderly nursing home current residents and discharges: data from the 1997 National Nursing Home Survey.

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Matching MCBS (Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey) and Medicare data: the best of both worlds.

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The quality of life in the year before death.

1992 • 48 citations