Issues in Services Delivery to Ethnic Elderly,

Abstract

A large number of elderly persons spend their last years in life situations characterized by inadequate income, poor housing, and a lack of medical care and other needed services. The inadequacies of essential services is particularly significant for elderly members of ethnic and cultural minority groups; for many of them, the factors which contributed to a lifetime of economic and psychological struggle are exacerbated in old age. In this paper attention is focused on the problems of services delivery to elderly members of ethnic groups. In so doing, it is not suggested that the needs of Anglo Americans have been addressed adequately by public policy, but only that failures of public policy often are aggravated by political, cultural and historical experiences which some ethnic groups bring to the American scene. This paper reviews the literature relevant to services delivery to elderly Chinese, Japanese, Filipinos, Samoans, American Indians, Mexican Americans and black Americans.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 01, 1976
Accession Number
ADA032219

Entities

People

  • Duran Bell
  • Gail Zellman

Organizations

  • RAND Corporation

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DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • African Americans
  • Census
  • Ethnic Groups
  • Food Stamps
  • Health
  • Health Services
  • Minority Groups
  • Native Americans
  • New York
  • North America
  • Psychology
  • Public Health
  • Public Policy
  • Social Psychology
  • Social Security
  • Social Welfare
  • United States

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