Who wants to enter a long-term care facility in a rapidly aging non-Western society? Attitudes of older Koreans toward long-term care facilities

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

Volumn 52, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 2114-2119

  Kim, Eun Young ^a   Kim, Chang Yup ^a  

^a Seoul National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Korea; Long term care; Residential facilities; Utilization

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; CHRISTIAN; COMMUNITY CARE; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; DEMOGRAPHY; FAMILY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HUMAN; INCOME; INDUSTRIALIZATION; INSTITUTIONAL CARE; KOREA; LONG TERM CARE; MALE; RESIDENTIAL HOME; SOCIAL ASPECT; ASIAN; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BEHAVIOR; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ETHNOLOGY; HOME FOR THE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; NURSING HOME; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; STATISTICAL MODEL; UNITED STATES; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; FEMALE; HOMES FOR THE AGED; HUMANS; INTENTION; KOREA; LOGISTIC MODELS; LONG-TERM CARE; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; NURSING HOMES; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 16644382655     PISSN: 00028614     EISSN: 15325415     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1532-5415.2004.52574.x     Document Type: Article

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