Social Care Networks and Older LGBT Adults: Challenges for the Future

Journal of Homosexuality

Volumn 61, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 21-52

  Brennan Ing, Mark ^a,b   Seidel, Liz ^a   Larson, Britta ^c   Karpiak, Stephen E ^a  

^a ACRIA Center on HIV and Aging   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Center on Halsted   (United States)

Author keywords

caregiving; homosexual; LGBT; services; social support

Indexed keywords

AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; BISEXUALITY; CAREGIVER; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLASSIFICATION; COMMUNITY CARE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; FEMALE; FRIEND; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; LESBIANISM; MALE; MALE HOMOSEXUALITY; MIDDLE AGED; NURSING; PREJUDICE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOMETRY; QUESTIONNAIRE; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SOCIAL WELFARE; TRANSSEXUALITY; UNITED STATES;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; AGED; AGING; BISEXUALITY; CAREGIVERS; CHRONIC DISEASE; COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; FRIENDS; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HOMOSEXUALITY, FEMALE; HOMOSEXUALITY, MALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MIDWESTERN UNITED STATES; PREJUDICE; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUESTIONNAIRES; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SOCIAL WELFARE; TRANSGENDERED PERSONS;

EID: 84890085124     PISSN: 00918369     EISSN: 15403602     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00918369.2013.835235     Document Type: Article

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