[Social factors related to awareness of public health care services among elderly adults].
This article presents findings on the association between social ties and the awareness in elderly of seven services. A total of 1,200 persons aged 60 and over were subjects of an interview survey of when 856 subjects provided necessary data for analysis. Subjects lived in two separate communities, Nerima-Ward (a metropolitan area) and Kashimadai-Cho (a rural area). Social ties were classified into six types: living with a person, contact with child (ren) living separately, contact with friend, contact with neighbor, and participation in a community group. The elderly metropolitan residents were significantly less likely to be aware of a greater number of services. Contacts with neighbor and participation in community group predicted service awareness. There were no regional differences in the effect of those ties on service awareness.
Department of Health Sociology, Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Gerontology.
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D000368:Aged / Q000523:psychology*; D001364:Awareness; D003153:Community Health Services; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D008875:Middle Aged