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FrontMatter -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Executive Summary -- Part I--Report -- 1 Aging in Sub-Saharan Africa: Recommendations for Furthering Research -- References -- Part II--Papers -- 2 Aging in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Changing Demography of the Region--Victoria A. Velkoff and Paul R. Kowal -- 3 Demographic Impacts of the HIV Epidemic and Consequences of Population-Wide Treatment of HIV for the Elderly: Results from Microsimulation--Samuel J. Clark -- 4 The HIV/AIDS Epidemic, Kin Relations, Living Arrangements, and the African Elderly in South Africa--M. Giovanna Merli and Alberto Palloni -- 5 Older Adults and the Health Transition in Agincourt, Rural South Africa: New Understanding, Growing Complexity--Kathleen Kahn, Stephen Tollman, Margaret Thorogood, Myles Connor, Michel Garenne, Mark Collinson, and Gillian Hundt -- 6 The Situation of Older People in Poor Urban Settings: The Case of Nairobi, Kenya--Alex C. Ezeh, Gloria Chepngeno, Abdhalah Ziraba Kasiira, and Zewdu Woubalem -- 7 Labor Force Withdrawal of the Elderly in South Africa--David Lam, Murray Leibbrandt, and Vimal Ranchhod -- 8 HIV/AIDS and Older People in South Africa--Victoria Hosegood and Ian M. Timaeus -- 9 Interactions Between Socioeconomic Status and Living Arrangements in Predicting Gender-Specific Health Status Among the Elderly in Cameroon--Barthélémy Kuate-Defo -- 10 Survey Measures of Health: How Well Do Self-Reported and Observed Indicators Measure Health and Predict Mortality?--Randall Kuhn, Omar Rahman, and Jane Menken -- Appendixes -- Appendix A Workshop Agenda -- Appendix B About the Contributors.