Community health education: Reaching ethnically diverse elders

Journal of Allied Health

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 215-222

  States, Rebecca A ^a   Susman, William M ^b   Riquelme, Luis F ^a   Godwin, Ellen M ^a   Greer, Ellen ^c  

^a LONG ISLAND UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SPRINGFIELD COLLEGE   (United States)

^c NEW YORK INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; COMMUNICATION DISORDER; COMMUNITY CARE; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DEMENTIA; DEPRESSION; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; HEALTH EDUCATION; HISPANIC; HUMAN; INTERDISCIPLINARY COMMUNICATION; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; MOTOR ACTIVITY; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; UNITED STATES;

AGED; COMMUNICATION BARRIERS; COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES; CULTURAL DIVERSITY; DEMENTIA; DEPRESSION; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; HEALTH EDUCATION; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; INTERDISCIPLINARY COMMUNICATION; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NEW YORK CITY; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 33846366969     PISSN: 00907421     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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