Older people's experience of proactive welfare rights advice: Qualitative study of a South Asian community

Ethnicity and Health

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 5-25

  Moffatt, Suzanne ^a   Mackintosh, Joan ^a  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Additional resources; Inequalities; Older people; South Asians; Welfare benefits; Welfare rights

Indexed keywords

AGING POPULATION; CIVIL RIGHTS; ETHNIC MINORITY; HEALTH SERVICES; LOW INCOME POPULATION; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUALITY OF LIFE; SOCIAL IMPACT; WELFARE PROVISION;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; DEMOGRAPHY; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DISPARITY; HOUSING; HUMAN; HUMAN RIGHTS; LANGUAGE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PENSION; POVERTY; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUALITY OF LIFE; RETIREMENT; SOCIAL WELFARE; SOUTH ASIA; TAX;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ASIA, SOUTHEASTERN; COMMUNICATION BARRIERS; CONSUMER ADVOCACY; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HEALTH SERVICES FOR THE AGED; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; MEDICAL INDIGENCY; MIDDLE AGED; PUBLIC ASSISTANCE; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SOCIAL WELFARE;

ENGLAND; EURASIA; EUROPE; NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE [ENGLAND]; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 60749121199     PISSN: 13557858     EISSN: 14653419     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13557850802056455     Document Type: Article

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