, 1994, p. 210).
The problems associated with the incarceration of older persons may, at a general level, be placed in two classifications. One of the classifications includes health and social problems directly affecting the older incarcerated persons, while the second classification includes financial problems associated with the funding of health care and protection costs for older inmates, as well as the administrative problems associated with the care and protection of older inmates. Each set of problems is important.
Because of the problems related to the incarceration of older persons, many corrections officials think that the age of 50 is an appropriate point for the designation of an inmate as elderly. While many people in the general population do not begin to develop serious health problems in their fifties, the stresses associated with incarceration, together with the pre-incarceration lifestyles of p
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