Objectives: to determine breast screening uptake in older women and to ascertain from previous non-attenders whether they would accept screening if invited.

Objectives: to determine breast screening uptake in older women and to ascertain from previous non-attenders whether they would accept screening if invited. Design: a random sample of older women randomly selecteded from three Family Health Service Authorities were interviewed in their domiciles Participants: 1604 women aged 65 years and from one side of to the other living at home, a answer rate of 94%. Results: 120 respondent (8%) had previously been protectioned Rates were higher among those who were married, separated or divorced than those who were single (P < 001) Of those who had not previously been covered 742 (50%) reported that they would attend if invited. Age influenced potential attendance: 67% of those aged 65-69 would accept compared with 27% of those aged 80 and through (P < 0.0001). Future attenders were significantly more likely to belong to the upper social class and to be commonly married, and were significantly les likely to be disabled or make despondented but more likely to be anxious (P < 005) Conclusions: it is unjustifiable to withhold women over 65 from breast screening in succession the basis of assumed subdued uptake rates. Certain categories of women - as it is as those who were physically disabled, press downed single or from lower social classes - could be targeted to achieve maximum uptake rates.

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