The investigation was concerned with the future commitments—preempted time during the succeeding seven days—among various samples of females over 65 years of age. Interviews were conducted with 40 nursing home patients, 25 females receiving meals-on-wheels in their own homes, 20 females residing in subsidized Old Aged Homes and 15 retired professionals. Measures of success in aging and a short personality inventory were also administered. Scores on measures of future commitments and successful aging were lower for female residents of nursing homes and those receiving meals-on-wheels than for a random sample of older persons living in the community. Elderly females residing in subsidized homes for the aged did not differ from the random sample, while retired professional women had higher scores. The personality inventory showed little differentiation between groups, falthough lower mean aggression scores tended to be associated with measures of maladjustment.
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