Experience of discrimination among U.S. Chinese older adults

Journals of Gerontology - Series A Biological Sciences and Medical Sciences

Volumn 69, Issue , 2014, Pages S76-S81

  Dong, Xinqi ^a   Chen, Ruijia ^a   Simon, Melissa A ^b  

^a RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Chinese; Discrimination; Older adults; Unfair treatment response

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; COMMUNITY DWELLING PERSON; CONTROLLED STUDY; EDUCATION; FEMALE; FREQUENCY DISCRIMINATION; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; ILLINOIS; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MARRIED PERSON; MIDDLE AGED; PARTICIPATORY RESEARCH; PREVALENCE; QUALITY OF LIFE; RISK FACTOR; TREATMENT RESPONSE; AGEISM; ASIAN AMERICAN; CHINA; ETHNOLOGY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UNITED STATES; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGEISM; ASIAN AMERICANS; CHICAGO; CHINA; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 84922391930     PISSN: 10795006     EISSN: 1758535X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/gerona/glu150     Document Type: Article

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