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| Older adults' use of medical and alternative care | | Author(s) | Beverly Wellman, Merrijoy Kelner, Blossom T Wigdor |
| Journal title | Journal of Applied Gerontology, vol 20, no 1, March 2001 |
| Pages | pp 3-23 |
| Keywords | General practitioners ; Alternative medicine ; Personnel ; Usage [services] ; Comparison ; Canada. |
| Annotation | This article reports on a study of 77 older Canadians, 35 of them patients of family physicians and the other 42 patients of alternative practitioners. The two groups were compared along a number of dimensions, and differences were identified in health problems, social characteristics, practitioners consulted, reasons for choice of therapy and practitioner, pathways taken to care and length and frequency of practitioner visits. The data show that few older adults sought care from alternative practitioners, and that those who did so had distinctive social and health characteristics. The pathways followed by patients of alternative practitioners were complex and varied, but these patients did not forsake medical care. (KJ/RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-010724201 A |
| Classmark | QT6: LK3: QM: QLD: 48: 7S |
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