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This article examines spatial aspects of the grocery shopping behaviors of the ambulatory urban elderly. Hypotheses are formulated and tested to discover whether these behaviors vary between (a) the downtown elderly and their suburban counterparts, and (b) the young-old and the old-old. The data are based on a questionnaire/interview survey of samples of elderly residents of Winnipeg, Manitoba. The findings disclose that the elderly's grocery shopping is mainly confined to the home neighborhood regardless of the types of outlet available locally. As a result, the downtown elderly are spatially disadvantaged because they lack a competitively priced local supermarket and are often deprived of access to automobile transportation. The results also reveal only moderate disparities between the behaviors of the young-old and the old-old. A separate analysis reveals that the elderly's grocery shopping trips are frequently linked to other activities. In light of the findings, policy recommendations are offered.

The present study has been conducted in Raipur city, in the state of Chhattisgarh, India. The state is a young, where there is rapid urbanization and modernization is ongoing. The health of geriatric population is a present as well as future concern. This poses mounting pressures on various socio-economic fronts of the state, including pension outlays, health care expenditures, saving levels etc. This makes it necessary to look into the various aspects of their problems: Health, social rejection, economic, psychological and other allied aspects. In the traditional joint families, infirmities are taken care of by the individuals, immediate circle of relations and family members. Older people enjoy a sense of honour and authority and had the responsibility in decision-making. However, in recent times, as a result of changing circumstances due to demographic transition, rapid pace of industrialization and urbanization, disintegration of joint family structures into unitary ones, the older people become more vulnerable to physical disabilities as a result of different morbidities and poor health seeking behavior. This study will prove to be useful for the planners and policy makers in Government and private organizations and will help in enhancing the understanding of the problems of elderly people in the state.

169 urban elderly Ss were interviewed to study (1) the interrelationships among mobility, health, demographic and factor analytically derived attitudinal variables and (2) the characteristics of users and non-users of an innovative transportation program. Positive correlations were obtained between mobility and each of the following variables: self-assessed health (p < .001); functional ability (p < .001); current income (p < .005); Life Satisfaction (p < .001); and Ego Integrity (p < .001). Current income was positively correlated with Life Satisfaction (p < .001) and Optimism about the Future (p < .005) and negatively correlated with Authoritarianism (p < .005) and Political Powerlessness (p < .005). Life Satisfaction and Ego Integrity were positively correlated with selfassessed health (p < .001 in both cases). Age, income and education did not differentiate between users and non-users, nor did four of the five attitude factors. However, users manifested significantly poorer self-assessed health and functional ability, significantly less mobility and less Ego Integrity than non-users. The findings suggested that further experimental studies be undertaken to investigate whether increased mobility would have an impact on the attitudes with which it was found to be correlated. This was discussed in light of the intervening variable of health and the relationship between psychological and somatic states.