Use of home and community-based services by elderly black and white females

Journal of Women and Aging

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 5-20

  Wallace, Debra C ^a   Fields, Becky L ^a   Witucki, Janet ^a   Boland, Clara ^a   Tuck, Inez ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^b VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Blacks; Community; Elderly; Females; Service utilization

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGED; ARTICLE; CAUCASIAN; COMMUNITY CARE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HEALTH SURVEY; HOME CARE; HUMAN; PATIENT ATTITUDE; POVERTY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RURAL POPULATION; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HEALTH STATUS INDICATORS; HOME CARE SERVICES; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; LOGISTIC MODELS; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; POVERTY; RURAL POPULATION; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SOUTH CAROLINA; WOMEN;

EID: 0033249856     PISSN: 08952841     EISSN: 15407322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J074v11n04_02     Document Type: Article

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