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CEI Dashboards Glossary
The CEI Dashboards Glossary specifies the definition of terms used in the CEI Demographics Dashboard and the CEI Cost-of-Living Dashboard (e.g., groups, categories, and data sources presented in drop-down menus, filters, and notes).
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Additional Resources
Cost of Basic Living Expenses
Learn about the California Elder Index’s measure of basic cost of living for older adults in California in housing, health care, food, transportation, and other miscellaneous expenses such as personal care, telephone, and household maintenance.
Number of Elders Impacted
Thousands of seniors are struggling with severe economic insecurity, having "too much" income to qualify for public assistance yet not enough income to make ends meet on their own. Learn about how the California Elder Index helped identify California’s “hidden poor.”
Cost of Long-Term Care
Data from the California Elder Index has been used to examine the cost of in-home supportive services relative to seniors' income. Access document.