"una persona derechita (staying right in the mind)": Perceptions of spanish-speaking mexican american older adults in South Texas Colonias

Gerontologist

Volumn 49, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2009, Pages

  Sharkey, Joseph R ^a,b   Sharf, Barbara F ^a   St John, Julie A ^b  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain health; Colonias; Focus groups; Mexican Americans; Spanish speaking seniors

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; AUDIO RECORDING; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; ELDERLY CARE; FEMALE; HEALTH AUXILIARY; HEALTH SURVEY; HISPANIC; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INCOME; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; LANGUAGE; LIFESTYLE MODIFICATION; MALE; MEMORY; SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; UNITED STATES;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; COGNITION; COMMUNITY HEALTH AIDES; FEMALE; FOCUS GROUPS; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; MALE; MEXICAN AMERICANS; MIDDLE AGED; QUESTIONNAIRES; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TEXAS; TRANSLATING;

EID: 68149107764     PISSN: 00169013     EISSN: 17585341     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/geront/gnp086     Document Type: Article

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