How will the U.S. Healthcare system meet the challenge of the ethnogeriatric imperative?: Ethnogeriatrics and special population

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

Volumn 57, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1278-1285

  Yeo, Gwen ^a,b  

^a Stanford Geriatric Education Center ^*  (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Culture; Disparities; Ethnogeriatrics; Healthcare policy

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGING; AMERICAN INDIAN; ASIAN AMERICAN; CULTURAL FACTOR; GERIATRIC CARE; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE DISPARITY; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HISPANIC; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LONG TERM CARE; MINORITY HEALTH; POPULATION MODEL; REVIEW; TERMINAL CARE; UNITED STATES;

AGED; COMMUNICATION BARRIERS; CULTURAL DIVERSITY; ETHNIC GROUPS; HEALTH SERVICES FOR THE AGED; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HEALTH STATUS INDICATORS; HUMANS; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; RISK FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 67649774376     PISSN: 00028614     EISSN: 15325415     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1532-5415.2009.02319.x     Document Type: Review

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