The Lived Experience of Haitian Older Adults’ Integration Into a Senior Center in Southeast Florida

Journal of Transcultural Nursing

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 33-39

  McCaffrey, Ruth ^a  

^a FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Haitian; integration; older adults; senior centers

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; AGED; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; COMMUNICATION DISORDER; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; CULTURAL FACTOR; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HAITI; HEALTH CENTER; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; LIFE EVENT; LONELINESS; MALE; MIGRATION; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; RELIGION; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; UNITED STATES;

ACCULTURATION; ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CATHOLICISM; COMMUNICATION BARRIERS; COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS; CULTURAL DIVERSITY; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; FEMALE; FLORIDA; HAITI; HUMANS; INTERGENERATIONAL RELATIONS; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; LONELINESS; MALE; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; QUESTIONNAIRES; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL IDENTIFICATION; SOCIAL VALUES;

EID: 37249053765     PISSN: 10436596     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1043659607309139     Document Type: Article

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