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The Developmentally Disabled Elderly in Canada: Access to Health Care and Social Services

Description: The accessibility, predictors, and use of health care and social services among developmentally disabled elderly adults in Canada were examined using a nationally representative social survey. The first research hypothesis is that the independent variables will contribute significantly to the prediction of the dependent variables. A second hypothesis is that the slope of any given independent variable will not equal zero. The results of this research show that the illness (need) variables are t… more
Date: August 1992
Creator: Easterling, Calvin Henry
Partner: UNT Libraries
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Predictors of Health Care and Social Service Utilization and Perceived Need Among the Disabled Elderly in Canada

Description: The world has experienced a tremendous growth in its elderly population. With the aging of the population, policy makers are concerned about the health of these elderly as well as their utilization of health care and social services and perceived need for additional services. The Canadian elderly population is similar to other elderly populations in that a few tend to be the heaviest users of the available services. The predictors of this utilization behavior and perceived need primarily includ… more
Date: August 1992
Creator: Dietz, Tracy L.
Partner: UNT Libraries
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Alcohol Use among the Elderly in Edmonton, Alberta: a Multivariate Analysis

Description: A model of social stressor variables, social integration variables and demographic control variables was tested to assess their impact on alcohol use among the elderly. A secondary analysis of a survey on alcohol use among the elderly in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, was conducted to test the major hypotheses of the study. Contingency table analysis, using gamma and partial gamma as correlation coefficients, was utilized in the data analysis. The first hypothesis, in regard to the positive relatio… more
Date: May 1989
Creator: Watson, Jack Borden
Partner: UNT Libraries
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