Navajo Elderly People in a Reservation Nursing Home: Admission Predictors and Culture Care Practices

Social Work

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 181-189

  Mercer, Susan O ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS AT LITTLE ROCK   (United States)

Author keywords

American Indians; Culture; Elderly people; Navajo Nation; Nursing homes

Indexed keywords

AGED; AMERICAN INDIAN; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; CRIME; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; CULTURAL FACTOR; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; FEMALE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; MALE; NURSING HOME; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RISK FACTOR; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIAL WORK; UNITED STATES;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ARIZONA; CULTURAL CHARACTERISTICS; CULTURAL DIVERSITY; ELDER ABUSE; FEMALE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HUMANS; INDIANS, NORTH AMERICAN; INTERMEDIATE CARE FACILITIES; MALE; NURSING HOMES; PATIENT ADMISSION; RISK FACTORS; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIAL WORK;

EID: 0030092863     PISSN: 00378046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/sw/41.2.181     Document Type: Article

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