Perceived youth: appraisal and characterization.

Results from a mail survey of respondents aged sixty to ninety-four suggest that psychographic dimensions of youthfulness and identification with old age constitute effective inner-age research variables, especially to those seeking to study older populations. The two specific dimensions explored are: "perceived youth," a magnitude measure of the proportional discrepancy between chronological and cognitive ages; and "feeling-old," which inversely measured youth through reliance on a six-point Likert agree/disagree statement: "I feel old..

Medical outshopping intent: profiling the health care consumer.

The health care industry has been exposed to a tremendous upheaval in the last decade. The traditional practices have given way to new behaviors and structures. This is especially true for community hospitals that have long provided the major portion of health care services in their markets.

Cognitive age: demographic and psychographic dimensions.

This empirical study, based on a random self-report mail survey, explored perceptions of age among mature Americans aged 60+. Respondents were members of a systematic probability sample located in the Mid Atlantic region. Two inner-age dimensions were considered: the first, Cognitive Age, is a measure of self-perceived age and assesses a person's "actual" age-role self-concept; the second, entitled Youthfulness, is a new measure of youth scored by what percentage a respondent's Age-of-Birth is greater than his or her Cognitive Age (Chronological Age/Cognitive Age).