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| Use of senior center services of the elderly Chinese immigrants | | Author(s) | Daniel W L Lai |
| Journal title | Journal of Gerontological Social Work, vol 35, no 2, 2001 |
| Pages | pp 59-80 |
| Source | http://www.tandfonline.com |
| Keywords | Chinese people ; Day centres ; Usage [services] ; Canada. |
| Annotation | Canada has been attracting immigrants from a wide variety of cultural backgrounds. This study uses the Andersen-Newman service utilization framework, to examine factors explaining different types of senior centre service use by a random sample of older Chinese people living in Canada. Although most of them visit day centres regularly, there is evidence that they substantially under-use support services. The findings also show that the predictors of use vary for different types of senior centre services. While the use of acculturation services is predicted by age of users, the use of recreation services is better explained by place of origin and negative affect. The use of task assistance services is best explained by gender, satisfaction toward services, and negative affect. The use of support services is predicted by living arrangement, satisfaction toward services, and fewer mental health symptoms. Finally, the frequency of drop-in is predicted by gender, place of origin and satisfaction toward services. The implications of these findings to social work practice with elderly Chinese are discussed. (KJ/RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-011211204 A |
| Classmark | TKL: NMC: QLD: 7S |
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