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| Discretion and service use among older adults: the behavioral model revisited | | Author(s) | Jim Mitchell |
| Journal title | The Gerontologist, vol 38, no 2, April 1998 |
| Pages | pp 159-168 |
| Keywords | Services ; Health services ; Usage [services] ; Living in the community ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | The dynamics of service use among older people may vary across different types of services. This US study explored whether research applying the behavioural model to the use of services among older people could be enriched by the classification of services along a discretionary dimension. Survey responses from 2,178 community-dwelling older people in North Carolina were used to test the hypothesis that predisposing, enabling, and need characteristics are better predictors of discretionary than non-discretionary service use. Logistic regression results predicting the use of a variety of community-based and medical services categorised as most discretionary, partially discretionary, and least discretionary supported the hypothesis, highlighting the importance of need characteristics for least discretionary service use. (AKM). |
| Accession Number | CPA-980716402 A |
| Classmark | I: L: QLD: K4: 7T |
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