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The Gerontologist, Vol 38, Issue 3 309-316, Copyright © 1998 by The Gerontological Society of America
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A Moon, JE Lubben and V Villa
Department of Social Welfare, University of California, Los Angeles School of Public Policy and Social Research 90095-1656, USA. [email protected]
This article presents a comparative analysis of the level of awareness and utilization of 15 community-based long-term care services by 213 elderly Korean and 201 non-Hispanic White Americans. We found extremely low levels of awareness and utilization of long-term health and social services among Korean Americans, in both absolute and relative terms. This finding challenges the success of the Older Americans Act, an important funding source of those services, in meeting its stated objectives to increase service availability and delivery to minority elders and socioeconomically disadvantaged elders. Strategies for effective outreach and public education efforts are also discussed.
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