Premature Institutionalization Among The Rural Elderly In Arizona

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• Alternative Title:
  Public Health Rep
• Personal Author:
  Greene, V L
• Description:
  Rural areas of the U.S., compared with urban areas, exhibit a scarcity of resources and programs designed to provide health and supportive services to impaired elderly persons living in the community. Furthermore, recent research has indicated that informal, familial support for the rural elderly has become increasingly attenuated because of such factors as outmigration of younger family members. Under these circumstances, there is reason for concern that a lack of available supportive services to help impaired rural elderly persons remain in the community may in effect drive them prematurely into nursing homes. In Arizona we have found that, consistent with such a process, elderly nursing home patients in rural areas tend on the average to be significantly less impaired in most areas of functional capacity, and younger at time of entry, than elderly nursing home patients in urban areas. This pattern remains when various possible confounding effects are statistically controlled.
• Subjects:
  Activities Of Daily Living Aged Age Factors Cross-Sectional Studies Female Health Services For The Aged Humans Institutionalization Male Middle Aged Nursing Homes Psychosocial Deprivation Rural Population Urban Population

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• Source:
  Public Health Rep. 99(1):58-63
• Pubmed ID:
  6422496
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMCnull
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  North America
• Volume:
  99
• Issue:
  1
• Collection(s):
  Public Health Reports
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:1e62e8802a4ffee788db0e5c1a11286d0fac82114be3d083ca8e79d7a13f46d3
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  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/66051/cdc_66051_DS1.pdf
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