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Aging versus disease
— the opinions of older black, Hispanic, and non-Hispanic white Americans about the causes and treatment of common medical conditions | | Author(s) | James S Goodwin, Sandra A Black, Shiva Satish |
| Journal title | Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, vol 47, no 8, August 1999 |
| Pages | pp 973-979 |
| Keywords | Ill health ; Biological ageing ; Attitude ; Health services ; Usage [services] ; Black people ; White people ; Social surveys ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | Little is known about how older people interpret disease and how those interpretations might relate to use of medical services. In this study, interviews were conducted with a population-based sample of 601 black, Hispanic and white persons aged 75 years and over in Texas, to assess their opinions about the cause and treatment of common diseases and how they are related to health behaviours. Substantial proportions of the subjects considered heart disease, arthritis, or sleeping difficulties to be a normal part of ageing. In multivariate analyses, subjects who considered all three of the medical conditions to be a normal part of ageing ("fatalistic") were less likely to have received preventive medical services in the previous years, and subjects who felt that nothing could be done to treat any of the conditions ("nihilistic") were less likely to have a regular physician. (AKM). |
| Accession Number | CPA-991210001 A |
| Classmark | CH: BH: DP: L: QLD: TKE: TKA: 3F: 7T |
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