Health Management for Older Adults III - Rural White Elderly as Patients

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Those persons who were considered part of the "wilds of the backwoods" or rather persons who abused tobacco and alcohol, and were sexually promiscuous, usually became a mortality statistic or migrated to the urban areas.

Therefore, today's rural elderly fit the description of "survival of the fittest" and are looked upon as hard working, self-sufficient, independent, hardy, and law-abiding persons.