Making choices about support services: Disabled adults' and older people's use of information

Health and Social Care in the Community

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 272-279

  Baxter, Kate ^a   Glendinning, Caroline ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Choice; Disabled adults; Health care; Information needs; Older people; Social care

Indexed keywords

ACCESS TO INFORMATION; ADULT; AGE; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; DISABLED PERSON; FEMALE; HEALTH EDUCATION; HUMAN; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SOCIAL SUPPORT; TRUST; UNITED KINGDOM;

ACCESS TO INFORMATION; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGING; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; DECISION MAKING; DISABLED PERSONS; ENGLAND; FEMALE; HEALTH EDUCATION; HUMANS; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SOCIAL SUPPORT; TRUST;

EID: 79953313214     PISSN: 09660410     EISSN: 13652524     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2524.2010.00979.x     Document Type: Article

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