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Toward understanding ethnic differences in late-life disability | Author(s) | Alan M Jette, Sybil Crawford, Sharon L Tennstedt |
Journal title | Research on Aging, vol 18, no 3, September 1996 |
Pages | pp 292-309 |
Keywords | Physical disabilities ; White people ; Black African ; Black Caribbean ; United States of America. |
Annotation | Examines the hypothesis that ethnic differences in late-life disability would be observed, and be attributed to differences in physical capacity versus measurement error or cultural response to disabling disease. Puerto Rican and African American older adults reported significantly more disability than Whites., Observed ethnic differences in disability were attributed to functional limitations. |
Accession Number | CPA-961016002 A |
Classmark | BN: TKA: TKF: TKG: 7T |
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