- Module 1: Financial preparedness
- Module 2: Risk aversion
- Module 3: Parents' and siblings' health and long-term care use
- Module 4: Valuation of health insurance benefits
- Asks whether respondent would drop employer-paid health insurance coverage if given an increase in current pay.
- Module 5: Medicare valuation
- Opinions on Medicare coverage options.
- Module 6: Characteristics of the home environment
- Module 7: Subjective probabilities of health-related events
- Module 8: Informed consent with Alzheimer's disease patients
- Elicits opinions about research on people with Alzheimer's with respect to informed consent issues.
- Module 9: Cognition - number series
- The purpose of this module was to broaden the content domain currently assessed in the HRS to include
“fluid intelligence.” The specific purpose was to see if we could achieve reasonably informative test
scores by using a small subset of items from the Number Series task adapted from the new WJ III using
adaptive testing methodology. The task administered in HRS 2006 was identical to the one included in
HRS 2004. More detail about the rationale for, development of, and administration details of this task is
available in the Ofstedal, Fisher, & Herzog (2005) HRS Cognition documentation report
(http://hrsonline.isr.umich.edu/docs/userg/dr-006.pdf).
- Module 10: Cognition - retrieval fluency
- The purpose of this module was to broaden the content domain currently assessed in the HRS to include
“fluid intelligence.” The specific purpose was to see if we could achieve reasonably informative test
scores by using a retrieval fluency task adapted from the Woodcock Johnson III test battery. A random
sub-sample of HRS respondents was selected and asked to complete the Retrieval Fluency module after
the standard HRS survey. Half of the sample for this module came from the sample that was selected to
receive the number series module in 2004; the other half was selected randomly from the remaining
sample of self-respondents in 2006.
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