Given the unusual circumstances of Cambodia and their likely impacts on the older population, considerable effort was made to develop a survey questionnaire that not only would cover the standard issues about elderly economic, social and physical well-being that are the focus of recent surveys of older age populations in the region but also issues specific for the situation in Cambodia. The latter included questions to capture the dramatic political history that caused so much social upheaval in the lives of older Cambodians over the past several decades, the impact of illness and death of adult children, and awareness and.
