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| The relative contribution of ethnicity versus socioeconomic status in explaining differences in disability and receipt of informal care | | Author(s) | Sharon Tennstedt, Bei-Hung Chang |
| Journal title | The Journals of Gerontology Series B: Psychological sciences and social sciences, vol 53B, no 2, March 1998 |
| Pages | pp S61-S70 |
| Keywords | Ethnic groups ; White people ; Black people ; Family care ; Needs [elderly] ; Socio-economic groups [elderly] ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | Data from a comparative study of 1975 African American, Puerto Rican and white persons aged 60 years and over in a large city in the United States (US) were used to investigate the relative contribution of ethnicity and socioeconomic status (SES) to explaining differences in the need for and receipt of informal care. It was hypothesised that differences in disability would be related largely to SES, whereas ethnicity would account for most of the differences in the amount of informal care. The results of a path analysis argue in favour of a cultural rather than a socioeconomic explanation for between-group differences. SES had no direct effect on disability when controlling for ethnicity. Ethnicity did explain differences in the amount of care between the groups. Even when controlling for disability, older people in the two minority groups received more informal care than did older white persons. The findings highlight the important role played by ethnicity in explaining an older person's need for and receipt of long-term care assistance. (AKM). |
| Accession Number | CPA-980602408 A |
| Classmark | TK: TKA: TKE: P6:SJ: IK: F:T4: 7T |
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