Health of Elderly Mexican American Adults and Family Caregiver Distress

Research on Aging

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 306-331

  Rote, Sunshine ^a   Angel, Jacqueline L ^b   Markides, Kyriakos ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL BRANCH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

caregiving; family; mental health; race ethnicity

Indexed keywords

AGED; ANXIETY; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CAREGIVER; ETHNOLOGY; FAMILY RELATION; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; MEXICAN AMERICAN; PSYCHOLOGY; SELF CONCEPT; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANXIETY; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CAREGIVERS; FAMILY RELATIONS; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; MALE; MEXICAN AMERICANS; SELF CONCEPT; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 84906094560     PISSN: 01640275     EISSN: 15527573     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0164027514531028     Document Type: Article

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