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Understanding older women's health care concerns
— a qualitative study | | Author(s) | Cara B Tannenbaum, Louise Nasmith, Nancy Mayo |
| Journal title | Journal of Women & Aging, vol 15, no 4, 2003 |
| Pages | pp 103-116 |
| Source | http://www.tandfonline.com |
| Keywords | Older women ; Health services ; Attitude ; Qualitative Studies ; Canada. |
| Annotation | This article originally appeared in Journal of Women & Aging, vol 15, no 1 (pp 3-16), but contained unintential omissions. The article appears in this issue as the authors intended. This study's goal was to obtain information from older women on how to improve health care services to best support their efforts to age successfully and receive optimal quality health care in later life. Focus groups were conducted with women aged 65+ recruited from the community in the Montreal, Quebec area; 36 women participated. Results emerged that participants felt that their physical health care needs were being met, but that a number of issues relating to psychological health were inadequately addressed by health care professionals. The importance of feeling validated as active participants in a health care relationship, recognition of fears and anxieties associated with ageing, and the need for information-sharing and education were all viewed as important health care priorities for older women. Time and accessibility were identified as the most significant barriers to receiving optimal health care in later life. (KJ/RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-030515228 A |
| Classmark | BD: L: DP: 3DP: 7S |
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