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ensure accuracy. Understanding Racial and Ethnic Differences in
Health in Late Life: A Research Agenda socioeconomic status,
health behaviors, the social environment, the use of medical
care, and genes. Recognizing the need for continuing research,
as well as the increasing diversity of the U.S. population, the
National Institute on Aging (which sponsored the 1994 workshop)
commissioned a new panel to update the work and develop research
recommendations. The panel’s specific mandate was to: organize a
2-day workshop with leading researchers from a variety of
disciplines and professional orientations to answer questions
about the nature and extent of racial and ethnic differences in
health in old age, the social and biological mechanisms
involved, what studies would advance understanding of
differences, and what opportunities exis