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Attitudes about entering a nursing home — comparisons of older rural and urban African-American women
Author(s)	Nancy E Schoenberg, Raymond T Coward
Journal title	Journal of Aging Studies, vol 11, no 1, Spring 1997
Pages	pp 27-48
Keywords	Admission [nursing homes] ; Attitude ; Older women ; Black people ; Rural areas ; Urban areas ; Comparison ; United States of America.
Annotation	The attitudes of 98 older American Black women about to enter a nursing home were investigated by interview. Approximately one third expressed positive attitudes: nursing homes are a good option if one's physical condition demanded, and if the care is good. A little over half had negative views: problems of adjustment, bad places to live, and places where you die. Some described an undifferentiated but generalised resistance to entering a nursing home. About one in seven offered assessments of nursing homes (either positive or negative) that were dependent on their family's circumstances. Results are discussed in terms of rural-urban differences. While rural elders tended to be more positive, but noting problems of adjustment, urban elders were generally resistant, and felt that nursing homes were bad places to which to move. (RH).
Accession Number	CPA-981015203 A
Classmark	LHB:QKH: DP: BD: TKE: RL: RK: 48: 7T
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