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Practitioners encounter more elderly clients and their families as the service demands of our aging society continue to grow. This article seeks to increase gerontological knowledge among students and practitioners by providing an outline for the multidimensional assessment of the elderly client. Seven domains of assessment are reviewed: physical health, mental health, social support, physical environments, functioning, coping styles, and formal service usage. Discussion includes topics to be covered in each dimension, helpful assessment instruments, particularly relevant interviewing skills, and use of allied professionals.

A new generation of computer simulation programs for exploring problems in demography, kinship ties, descent groups, and other kinds of connectivity in small human populations is now available for use. AMBUSH is a simulation package which may be useful for simulating effects of fertility and mortality schedules, rules of marriage and kinship, density‐dependent infanticide, and other features of closed breeding groups, and their stochastic variability. The program, described here, is available from the authors. [microsimulation, demography, kinship, connectivity]