Utilization of Community-Based Social and Health Services Among Foreign Born Hispanic American Elderly

Autor:	Thanh V. Tran, Surjit Singh Dhooper, Kathleen McLnnis-Dittrich
Rok vydání:	1997
Předmět:	Community based Gerontology Nursing (miscellaneous) Activities of daily living business.industry Cuban American common Hispanic american Social Welfare Poverty status Health services Foreign born common.group Medicine business Social Sciences (miscellaneous)
Zdroj:	Journal of Gerontological Social Work. 28:23-43
ISSN:	1540-4048 0163-4372
DOI:	10.1300/j083v28n04_03
Popis:	This study examined factors associated with the utilization of community-based social and health services among foreign born elderly Hispanic Americans. The data came from a nationwide probability sample of Hispanic Americans age 65 and older including 296 Mexico-born Mexican Americans, 571 Cuba-born Cuban Americans, and 247 respondents from other Hispanic countries. Being a Cuba-born Cuban American, living alone, having poorer self-rated health and living below poverty level were positively related with the utilization of community-based social services. Cuban Americans with more limitations in activities of daily living (ADL) used more community-based health services. Among Mexico-born Mexican Americans, those who lived alone used more social as well as health services while those who were married used more social services. Those with greater limitations in ADL used more health services. Among other foreign born Hispanic Americans, going to church, living alone and living below poverty status, ...
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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