title: Community size differences in service awareness among elderly adults.
abstract: This article presents findings on community size differences in the awareness of eight services for a sample of 600 elderly persons living in two countries containing a continuum of locales ranging from nonmetropolitan farm areas to the central city of a metropolitan area. The data were collected via indepth personal interviews, and indicate that the total number of services known by elderly persons is related directly to community size. Multiple-regression analysis revealed that community size is the strongest predictor of overall service awareness. However, variation in the awareness of individual services found for elderly residents of different community sizes suggests that the role this variable plays in service awareness is not as straightforward as is often assumed.
authors.affiliation: Department of Sociology and Anthropology, State University of New York, College at Fredonia.
authors.forename: J A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Krout
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D001364:Awareness; D003071:Cognition; D005260:Female; D006299:Health Services for the Aged; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011156:Population Density