are a rapidly increasing population;

suffer from high unemployment;

live in poverty at a rate estimated to be as high as 61 percent;

have a life expectancy between 3 and 4 years less than the general population;

lack sufficient nursing homes, other long-term care facilities, and other health care facilities;

lack sufficient Indian area agencies on aging;

frequently live in substandard and over-crowded housing;

receive less than adequate health care;

are served under this subchapter at a rate of less than 19 percent of the total national population of older individuals who are Indians living on Indian reservations; and

are served under subchapter III at a rate of less than 1 percent of the total participants under that subchapter.