Heumann L F, Lareau L S
Int J Aging Hum Dev. 1979;10(1):77-93. doi: 10.2190/jqxc-505u-map8-8pe7.
In order to allocate housing and support service funds, local planners need to know the number of elderly at various levels of functional disability. When the levels of disability are sufficiently specific, the need for specialized housing and support services can be identified, the proper funding priorities can be established, and new support programs developed. Locally administered surveys to determine functional disabilities are cost prohibitive, so estimates using secondary data are often used. This paper describes research to improve the accuracy of synthetic estimates of elderly with functional disabilities while expanding the number of functional ability levels used to describe the population.
为了分配住房和支持服务资金，地方规划者需要了解不同功能残疾水平的老年人数量。当残疾水平足够具体时，就可以确定对特殊住房和支持服务的需求，确立适当的资金优先事项，并制定新的支持项目。通过地方管理的调查来确定功能残疾成本过高，因此通常使用基于二手数据的估计。本文介绍了一项研究，旨在提高对有功能残疾老年人的综合估计的准确性，同时增加用于描述该人群的功能能力水平数量。
