ABSTRACT
As early as in the first representative survey of community-living older Swedes (67+) in 1954—the oldest survey of this kind still preserved—health and activities were well-covered issues. This permits us to describe and analyze long-term changes in older people’s lifestyle and health using later evidence, although exact comparability is hard to achieve. One simple sign of how our view on aging has shifted is that contemporary Swedish research on older people often starts at age 75 or 80.
