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Factors Explaining The Use Of Health Care Services By The Elderly, Paula Diehr, Connie Evashwick
Factors Explaining The Use Of Health Care Services By The Elderly, Paula Diehr, Connie Evashwick
Paula Diehr
The Anderson model of health services utilization, which relates use of service to predisposing, enabling, and need factors, has not often been applied to an elderly population. In this study, the factors of the Andersen model were used prospectively to predict utilization for a population sample of 1,317 elderly persons. Taken alone, the NEED construct was the most important single predictor of use of physician services, hospitalizations, ambulatory care, and home care. PREDISPOSING factors were better predictors of the use of dental services. Some of the variables studied were not related to utilization in the direction that would have been …