Elderly care for ethnic minorities - Wishes and expectations among elderly Finns in Sweden

Ethnicity and Health

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 135-146

  Heikkilä, Kristiina ^a   Ekman, Sirkka Liisa ^a,b  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b BLEKINGE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Culturally appropriate care; Elderly care environment; Elderly people; Ethnic minority; Qualitative content analysis

Indexed keywords

ELDERLY POPULATION; ETHNICITY; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH GEOGRAPHY;

AGED; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; GERIATRIC CARE; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HUMAN; IMMIGRANT; INSTITUTIONAL CARE; INTERVIEW; PATIENT SATISFACTION; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; REVIEW; SWEDEN;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CULTURE; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; FEMALE; FINLAND; HEALTH SERVICES FOR THE AGED; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS; MALE; SWEDEN;

SWEDEN;

EID: 0141571289     PISSN: 13557858     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13557850303559     Document Type: Review

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