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TABLE OF CONTENTS Vol.6 No.1 1991 LONGITUDINAL STUDIES Guest Editor: G. Clare Wenger G. CLARE WENGER / Longitudinal Studies of Ageing: Age as Process DORLY J. H. DEEG and GERARD H. VAN DER ZANDEN / Experiences from Longitudinal Studies of Aging: An International Perspective CHRISTOPH ROTT and HANS THOMAE / Coping in Longitudinal Perspective: Findings from the Bonn Longitudinal Study on Aging G. CLARE WENGER and SAID SHAHTAHMASEBI / Survivors: Support Network Variation and Sources of Help in Rural Communities Brief Research Reports RENZO ROZZINI, ANGELO BIANCHETTI, SIMONE FRANZONI, ORAZIO ZANETTI, and MARCO TRABUCCHI / Social, Functional and Health Status Influences on Mortality: Consideration of a Multidimensional Inquiry in a Large Elderly Population HIROSHI HAGA, HIROSHI SHIBATA, MITSUO UENO, HARUMI NAGAI, YASUO SUYAMA, TOSHIHISA MATSUZAKI, SEUJI YASUMURA, WATARU KOYANO, and SHUICHI HATANO / Factors Contribut- ing to Longitudinal Changes in Activities of Daily Living (ADL): The Koganei Study BARBARA BIEN / A Socio-Medical Survey of the Old Citizens of Bialystok, Poland: 5 Years Longitudinal Observation PERTTI POHJOLAINEN / Social Participation and Life-Style: A Lon- gitudinal and Cohort Study Review Essay: THOMAS A. GLASS / A Healthy State of Tension: A Review Essay on Three Recent Works in Aging Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology 6: 1991. TABLE OF CONTENTS Yol.6 No.2 199] ETHNIC DIVERSITY IN AGING AND AGING SERVICES IN THE U.S. Guest Editors: B. Josea Kramer and Judith C. Barker B. JOSEA KRAMER and JUDITH C. BARKER / Ethnic Diversity in Aging and Aging Services in the U.S.: Introduction JOANN DAMRON-RODRIGUEZ / Commentary: Multicultural Aspects of Aging in the U.S.: Implications for Health and Human Services SOO-YOUNG CHIN / Korean Birthday Rituals MARY L. DOI / A Transformation of Ritual: The Nisei 60th Birthday DARRYL WIELAND / Elder-Care in North American Isma’ili Families: A Preliminary Inquiry JUDITH C. BARKER / Pacific Island Migrants in the United States: Some Implications for Aging Services PERRI SLOANE / Experiences and Expectations of Government Services: The Older Soviet Immigrant LILLIAN S. LEW / Elderly Cambodians in Long Beach: Creating Cultural Access to Health Care B. JOSEA KRAMER / Urban American Indian Aging NORMAN FINEMAN / The Social Construction of Noncompliance: Implications for Cross-Cultural Geriatric Practice GWEN YEO / Ethnogeriatric Education: Need and Content LINDA A. WRAY / Public Policy Implications of an Ethnically Diverse Elderly Population Book Review Essay: SYLVIA VATUK / Gerontology in India: The State of the Art TABLE OF CONTENTS Vol.6 No.3 1991 HEALTH, DEVELOPMENT, AND AGING Guest Editor: Jay Sokolovsky JAY SOKOLOVSKY / Introduction to Special Section on Health, Aging and Development DOROTHY AYERS COUNTS / Aging, Health and Women in West New Britain ANTHONY P. GLASCOCK / Nothing is Without Cost: The Effects of Development on the Health of Older People in South Central Somalia LEOPOLD ROSENMAYR / Improving the Health Status of the Rural Elderly in Mali JAY SOKOLOVSKY, ZVONKO SOSIC, and GORDANA PAVLEKOVIC / Self-Help Hypertensive Groups and the Elderly in Yugoslavia BRUCE A. CHRISTENSON and ALBERT I. HERMALIN / A Demographic Decomposition of Elderly Living Arrangements with a Mexican Example Book Review Essay: HERBERT S. DONOW / “Find Fit Audience”: Literature for the Gerontologist Vol.6 No.4 199] AKIKO HASHIMOTO / Living Arrangements of the Aged in Seven Developing Countries: A Preliminary Analysis JOHN F. WATKINS and RICHARD ULACK / Migration and Regional Population Aging in the Philippines EMILY M. AGREE and ROBERT L. CLARK / Labor Force Participation at Older Ages in the Western Pacific: A Microeconomic Analysis KYU-TAIK SUNG / Family-Centered Informal Support Networks of Korean Elderly: The Resistance of Cultural Traditions Book Review Essay: KATHLEEN A. KALAB / Aging and Culture Index of Key Words